Deponent frequentative verb derived fromProto-Italic*imā, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂eym-(“to imitate”); same source asLatinimāgō f(“a copy, image”),Latinaemulus(“envious, rivaling”,adjective) andHittite𒄭𒅎𒈠𒀸 c(ḫi-im-ma-aš/⁠ḫimmaš⁠/,“substitute, imitation”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈi.mi.tor/,[ˈɪmɪt̪ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈi.mi.tor/,[ˈiːmit̪or]

imitor (present infinitiveimitārīorimitārier,perfect activeimitātussum);first conjugation,deponent

1. torepresent,express,portray
2. toimitate, act like,copy after, seek toresemble,counterfeit

¹The present passive infinitive in-ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

• “imitor”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imitor”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• imitor inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • (1) to make a lifelike natural representation of a thing (used of the artist); (2) to be lifelike (of a work of art):veritatemimitari (Div. 1. 13. 23)
    

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