imitator

English

Alternative forms

• imitatour (obsolete)

Etymology

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Noun

imitator (plural imitators)

1. One who imitates or apes another.

   Synonym: aper

Related terms

• imitate

Translations

one who imitates another

• Catalan: imitador (ca) m
• Dutch: imitator (nl) m
• Finnish: matkija (fi)
• French: imitateur (fr) m
• German: Nachahmer m, Nachahmerin f, Epigone (de) m, Epigonin f, Nachäffer m (colloquial), Nachäfferin f, Nachbeter m (colloquial, pejorative, t-, de, Nachbeterin), Nachsprecher m, Nachsprecherin f, Papagei (de) m, Papageiin f, Echo (de) n
• Indonesian: peniru (id)
• Irish: aithriseoir m
• Italian: imitatore (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 模倣者 (mohōsha), 亜流 (aryū)
• Korean: 모방자 (mobangja)
• Latin: imitātor m, imitātrix f, simulātor m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: imitator m

  Nynorsk: imitator m

• Russian: имита́тор (ru) m (imitátor), подража́тель (ru) m (podražátelʹ)
• Spanish: imitador (es) m

Anagrams

• Mariotti, Timariot

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /i.miˈtaː.tor/, [ɪmɪˈt̪äːt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.miˈta.tor/, [imiˈt̪äːt̪or]

Noun

imitātor m (genitive imitātōris); third declension

1. imitator
2. mimic

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	imitātor	imitātōrēs
Genitive	imitātōris	imitātōrum
Dative	imitātōrī	imitātōribus
Accusative	imitātōrem	imitātōrēs
Ablative	imitātōre	imitātōribus
Vocative	imitātor	imitātōrēs

Descendants

• Catalan: imitador
• English: imitator
• French: imitateur
• Galician: imitador
• Portuguese: imitador
• Russian: имита́тор (imitátor)
• Spanish: imitador

Verb

(deprecated template usage) imitātor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of imitor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of imitor

References

• “imitator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imitator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• imitator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin imitator

Noun

imitator m (definite singular imitatoren, indefinite plural imitatorer, definite plural imitatorene)

1. an imitator

Related terms

• imitere

References

• “imitator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “imitator” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin imitator

Noun

imitator m (definite singular imitatoren, indefinite plural imitatorar, definite plural imitatorane)

1. an imitator

Related terms

• imitere

References

• “imitator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imǐtaːtor/
• Hyphenation: i‧mi‧ta‧tor

Noun

imìtātor m (Cyrillic spelling имѝта̄тор)

1. imitator

Declension

Declension of imitator

	singular	plural
nominative	imitator	imitatori
genitive	imitatora	imitatora
dative	imitatoru	imitatorima
accusative	imitatora	imitatore
vocative	imitatore	imitatori
locative	imitatoru	imitatorima
instrumental	imitatorom	imitatorima