imago

English

Etymology

From Latin imāgō. Doublet of image.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmeɪɡəʊ/, /ɪˈmɑːɡəʊ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmeɪɡoʊ/, /ɪˈmɑɡoʊ/

Noun

imago (plural imagines or imagos or imagoes)

1. (entomology) The final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis.
   • 1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise:

     ‘But still,’ he said to himself, drawing the metamorphoses of a red admiral, egg, caterpillar, chrysalis and imago on his pad, ‘what shall I say to him when we meet?’

2. (psychology) An idealised concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unconsciously into adult life, the basis for the psychological formation of personality archetypes.

Derived terms

• imago clipeata
• imagology

Translations

Anagrams

• MOGAI, amigo

Czech

Alternative forms

• imágo

Pronunciation

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Noun

imago n

1. imago (final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis)

   Synonym: dospělec

Declension

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Further reading

• imago in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• imago in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin imago.

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Noun

imago n (plural imago's, diminutive imagootje n)

1. image

   De Nederlandse fotograaf Anton Corbijn heeft een belangrijke invloed gehad op het imago van de band U2.

   The Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn has had an important influence upon the image of the band U2.

2. (biology) imago: the full grown form of an insect.

Synonyms

(1) * image

Esperanto

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Hyphenation: i‧ma‧go

Noun

imago (accusative singular imagon, plural imagoj, accusative plural imagojn)

1. imagination

Estonian

Etymology

From Latin imago.

Noun

imago (genitive imago, partitive imagot)

1. image (a characteristic of a person, group or company etc.)
2. (zoology) imago, fully grown insect

Declension

Synonyms

• imidž

Finnish

Etymology

From Latin imāgō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈimɑɡo/,
• Rhymes: -imɑɡo
• Syllabification^(key): i‧ma‧go

Noun

imago

1. image (a characteristic of a person, group or company, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others)
2. (entomology) imago

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “imago”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ma.ɡo/

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Noun

imago f (plural imagos)

1. (entomology) imago (final stage of insect)
2. (psychology) imago (idealized image of a loved one)

Further reading

• “imago”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Italian

Alternative forms

• immago

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imāgō. Doublet of immagine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈma.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Hyphenation: i‧mà‧go

Noun

imago f (invariable)

1. (archaic, poetic) Synonym of immagine
2. (entomology) imago (development stage of an insect)
3. (psychology) imago (idealised/idealized concept of a loved one)

Further reading

• imago¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• imago² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• magio, mogia

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *imā + -āgō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym- (“to imitate”). Cognate with imitor, aemulus, Sanskrit यम (yáma, “pair, twin”), Old English emn, efn (“equal, level, even”). More at even.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /iˈmaː.ɡoː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈma.ɡo/,

Noun

imāgō f (genitive imāginis); third declension

1. image, imitation, likeness, statue, representation
2. ancestral image
3. ghost, apparition
4. semblance, appearance, shadow
5. echo

   Synonym: ēchō f

6. conception, thought
7. reminder
8. (rhetoric) comparison
9. (art) depiction

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (image, statue): signum, simulācrum, statua

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• “imago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imago”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• imago in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• imago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an echo: vocis imago, or simply imago
    
  • creatures of the imagination: rerum imagines
    
  • to conceive an ideal: singularem quandam perfectionis imaginem animo concipere
    
  • to sketch the ideal of an orator: imaginem perfecti oratoris adumbrare
    
• “imago”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 298

Polish

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imago

Wikipedia ^pl

Etymology

Internationalism; compare English imago, French imago, German Imago, ultimately from Latin imāgō. Doublet of image.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈma.ɡɔ/

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• Rhymes: -aɡɔ
• Syllabification: i‧ma‧go

Noun

imago n (indeclinable)

1. (entomology, lepidopterology) imago (final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis)

   Synonyms: owad dorosły, owad doskonały

   Coordinate terms: larwa, poczwarka

2. (psychoanalysis) imago (idealized concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unconsciously into adult life, the basis for the psychological formation of personality archetypes)
3. image forming part of an emblem

Declension

or

Indeclinable.

Further reading

• imago in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• imago in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French imago.

Noun

imago f (uncountable)

1. (entomology) imago (final stage of insect)

Declension

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈmaɡo/
• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Syllabification: i‧ma‧go

Noun

imago m (plural imagos)

1. (entomology) imago

Noun

imago f (plural imagos)

1. (psychology) imago

Further reading

• “imago”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014