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Latin
Etymology
Formed from imitor (“imitate”) + -tiō (“-tion”).
Noun
imitātiō f (genitive imitātiōnis); third declension
- imitation
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “imitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “imitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- imitatio 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)
- imitatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- in everything nature defies imitation: in omni re vincit imitationem veritas
- a lifelike picture of everyday life: morum ac vitae imitatio