ymage
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old French and Anglo-Norman ymage, from Latin imāgō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym- (“similarity, resemblance”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editymage (plural ymages)
- image, depiction (visual representation):
- Likeness, closeness; the state of being similar.
- A likeness; something that is similar or akin.
- The (real or mental) appearance or form of something.
- (rare) A scarecrow (effigy for scaring animals away)
- (rare) A deceptive form; an apparition.
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editDescendants
editReferences
edit- “imāǧe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
editNoun
editymage oblique singular, f (oblique plural ymages, nominative singular ymage, nominative plural ymages)
- Alternative form of image
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- enm:Appearance
- enm:Art
- enm:Occult
- enm:Religion
- enm:Vision
- Old French lemmas
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