imitate

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin imitatus, past participle of imitari (“to copy, portray, imitate”).

PronunciationEdit

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɪmɪteɪt/

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VerbEdit

imitate (third-person singular simple present imitates, present participle imitating, simple past and past participle imitated)

1. To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.
   • 1870, Shirley Hibberd, Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste (page 170)

     Another bird quickly learned to imitate the song of a canary that was mated with it, but as the parrakeet improved in the performance the canary degenerated, and came at last to mingle the other bird's harsh chitterings with its own proper music.

2. To copy.

SynonymsEdit

• See also Wikisaurus:imitate

AntonymsEdit

• create

Related termsEdit

• imitation
• imitative
• imitable
• imitator

TranslationsEdit

to follow as a model

• Armenian: ընդօրինակել (hy) (əndōrinakel)
• Asturian: imitar
• Catalan: imitar (ca)
• Czech: napodobit
• Dutch: nabootsen (nl), imiteren (nl)
• Estonian: matkima
• French: imiter (fr)
• Galician: imitar
• German: imitieren
• Hungarian: utánoz (hu), imitál
• Italian: imitare (it)
• Japanese: 倣う (ja) (narau), 真似る (maneru), 模倣する (mohō suru)
• Malay: tiru

• Maore Comorian: utiba
• Maori: whakatau
• Polish: naśladować (pl)
• Portuguese: imitar (pt)
• Russian: подража́ть (ru) (podražátʹ), имитировать (ru) (imitirovatʹ)
• Slovene: oponašati, posnemati (sl), imitirati
• Spanish: imitar (es)
• Swahili: kuiga (sw)
• Swedish: imitera (sv) (1), imitera (sv), härma (sv) (2)
• Telugu: అనుకరించు (te) (anukariṃcu)
• Vietnamese: nhái (vi)

Further readingEdit

• imitate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• imitate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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ItalianEdit

VerbEdit

imitate

1. second-person plural present indicative of imitare
2. second-person plural imperative of imitare
3. feminine plural of imitato

AnagramsEdit

• ematiti

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LatinEdit

ParticipleEdit

imitāte

1. vocative masculine singular of imitātus