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mimus

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Latin

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”).

    Noun

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    mīmus m (genitive mīmī); second declension

    1. mime, farce
    2. mime actor (male)
    3. (figurative) a farce

    Declension

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    Second-declension noun.

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    Descendants

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    • → Catalan: mim
    • → French: mime
    • → Galician: mimo
    • → German: Mime
    • → Italian: mimo
    • → Polish: mim
    • → Portuguese: mimo
    • → Russian: мим (mim)
    • → Spanish: mimo

    References

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    • “mimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “mimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "mimus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “mimus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • “mimus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “mimus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin