impostor
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French imposteur.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɒstə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɑstɚ/
Audio (GA) (file) - Hyphenation: im‧pos‧tor
Noun edit
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(In these examples, italicized terms refer to the same thing.)
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impostor (plural impostors)
- Someone who attempts to deceive by using an assumed name or identity.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Consent”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 153:
- "It were dishonour in me to yield. I will not play the part of an impostor, whom my uncle must despise even while he screens. No; these estates are his right: let him take them; I will not buy them with his daughter's hand."
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XX, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- “I said he had a criminal face.” “He can't help his face.” “He can help being a crook and an impostor. Calls himself a butler, does he? The police could shake that story. He's no more a butler than I am.”
- (computer graphics) A sprite or animation integrated into a three-dimensional scene, but not based on an actual 3D model.
- (linguistics) A term referenced in an unusual grammatical person.
- 2018, Angela Xiaoxue He, Rhiannon Luyster, Sudha Arunachalam, “Personal pronoun usage in maternal input to infants at high vs. low risk for autism spectrum disorder”, in First Language, volume 38, number 5, :
- One possibility is that mothers of HR [higher-risk] infants frequently use non-pronoun forms in place of pronouns, as in the impostor uses noted above.
Usage notes edit
impostor is the traditional spelling; imposter was relatively rare, but has become almost as common as impostor since 2000.[1]
Synonyms edit
- impersonator
- See also Thesaurus:deceiver
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
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Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin impostōrem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
impostor m (plural impostors, feminine impostora)
- impostor (someone who uses a false identity)
Further reading edit
- “impostor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “impostor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “impostor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “impostor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin impostor.
Noun edit
impostor m (plural impostores, feminine impostora, feminine plural impostoras)
- impostor (someone who uses a false identity)
Further reading edit
- “impostor” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From earlier impositor, agent noun of impōnō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /imˈpos.tor/, [ɪmˈpɔs̠t̪ɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /imˈpos.tor/, [imˈpɔst̪or]
Noun edit
impostor m (genitive impostōris); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | impostor | impostōrēs |
Genitive | impostōris | impostōrum |
Dative | impostōrī | impostōribus |
Accusative | impostōrem | impostōrēs |
Ablative | impostōre | impostōribus |
Vocative | impostor | impostōrēs |
Descendants edit
References edit
- -ōris imposter, -ōris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Polish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin impostor. Doublet of imposter.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
impostor m pers
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | impostor | impostorzy/impostory (deprecative) |
genitive | impostora | impostorów |
dative | impostorowi | impostorom |
accusative | impostora | impostorów |
instrumental | impostorem | impostorami |
locative | impostorze | impostorach |
vocative | impostorze | impostorzy |
Further reading edit
- impostor in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin impostōrem.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: im‧pos‧tor
Noun edit
impostor m (plural impostores, feminine impostora, feminine plural impostoras)
- impostor (someone who uses a false identity)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French imposteur.
Noun edit
impostor m (plural impostori)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) impostor | impostorul | (niște) impostori | impostorii |
genitive/dative | (unui) impostor | impostorului | (unor) impostori | impostorilor |
vocative | impostorule | impostorilor |
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin impostor. Cognate with English impostor.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
impostor m (plural impostores, feminine impostora, feminine plural impostoras)
- impostor (someone who uses a false identity)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “impostor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014