imago

English

Etymology

From Latin imāgō.

Pronunciation

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

• imagology

Translations

development stage of an insect

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 成蟲 (zh), 成虫 (zh) (chéngchóng)

• Czech: dospělec (cs) m, imago (cs) n
• Finnish: imago (fi)
• German: Vollkerf m
• Irish: iomágó m

• Italian: imago (it) m
• Japanese: 成虫 (ja) (せいちゅう, seichū)
• Kazakh: имаго (ïmago)
• Polish: imago (pl) n
• Russian: има́го (ru) n (imágo) (indeclinable)
• Swedish: imago (sv) c

Anagrams

• MOGAI, amigo

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Czech

Alternative forms

• imágo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪmaɡo]

Noun

imago n

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

   Synonym: dospělec

Further reading

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

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Dutch

Etymology

From Latin imago.

Pronunciation

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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.^[1] — 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

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

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Noun

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

1. imagination

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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

Inflection of imago (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	imago	imagod
accusative	imago	imagod
genitive	imago	imagote
partitive	imagot	imagoid
illative	imagosse	imagotesse imagoisse
inessive	imagos	imagotes imagois
elative	imagost	imagotest imagoist
allative	imagole	imagotele imagoile
adessive	imagol	imagotel imagoil
ablative	imagolt	imagotelt imagoilt
translative	imagoks	imagoteks imagoiks
terminative	imagoni	imagoteni
essive	imagona	imagotena
abessive	imagota	imagoteta
comitative	imagoga	imagotega

Synonyms

• imidž

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Finnish

Etymology

From Latin imāgō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈimɑɡo/, [ˈimɑɡo̞]
• Rhymes: -imɑɡo
• Syllabification: 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

Inflection of imago (Kotus type 2/palvelu, no gradation)
nominative		imago	imagot
genitive		imagon	imagojen imagoiden imagoitten
partitive		imagoa	imagoja imagoita
illative		imagoon	imagoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		imago	imagot
accusative	nom.	imago	imagot
	gen.	imagon
genitive		imagon	imagojen imagoiden imagoitten
partitive		imagoa	imagoja imagoita
inessive		imagossa	imagoissa
elative		imagosta	imagoista
illative		imagoon	imagoihin
adessive		imagolla	imagoilla
ablative		imagolta	imagoilta
allative		imagolle	imagoille
essive		imagona	imagoina
translative		imagoksi	imagoiksi
instructive		—	imagoin
abessive		imagotta	imagoitta
comitative		—	imagoineen

Possessive forms of imago (type palvelu)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	imagoni	imagomme
2nd person	imagosi	imagonne
3rd person	imagonsa

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French

Pronunciation

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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)

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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 concept of a loved one)

References

• 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

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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/, [ɪˈmäːɡoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈma.ɡo/, [iˈmɑːɡɔ]

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

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	imāgō	imāginēs
Genitive	imāginis	imāginum
Dative	imāginī	imāginibus
Accusative	imāginem	imāginēs
Ablative	imāgine	imāginibus
Vocative	imāgō	imāginēs

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• imāginābilis
• imāginālis
• imāgināliter
• imāginārius
• imāgineus
• imāginifer
• imāginō
• imāginor
• imāginōsus
• imāguncula

 

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: ymage, image
  • Norman: image
• Asturian: imaxe
• Catalan: imatge
• Dutch: imago
• English: image, imago
• Esperanto: imago
• Old Francoprovençal: ymage, ymagena
  • Franco-Provençal: image, imagina
• French: image
• Italian: immagine
  • → Piedmontese: imàgin, imàgine
• Irish: íomhá
• Occitan: imatge

• Old French: image
• Old Irish: ímáig
• Old Portuguese: ymagen
  • Galician: imaxe
  • Portuguese: imagem
• Piedmontese: image
• Romanian: imagine
• Scottish Gaelic: ìomhaigh
• Sicilian: mmàggini
• Spanish: imagen
• Swedish: imago

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^[2], 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

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈma.ɡɔ/

Noun

imago n

1. (entomology) imago
2. (psychology) imago

Declension

Declension of imago

	singular	plural
nominative	imago	imaga/imagines
genitive	imaga	imag
dative	imagu	imagom
accusative	imago	imaga
instrumental	imagiem	imagami
locative	imagu	imagach
vocative	imago	imaga

Further reading

• imago in Polish dictionaries at PWN