English

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 unaltered in adult life.

Translations

Anagrams

• amigo

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin imago.

Pronunciation

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.— 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

Esperanto

Noun

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

1. imagination

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *imā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym- ‎(“to imitate”). Cognate with imitor, aemulus, Sanskrit यम ‎(yamá, “pair, twin”), Old English emn, efn ‎(“equal, level, even”). More at even.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɪ.ˈmaː.ɡoː/

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

Inflection

Third declension.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Descendants

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “imago”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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