imaginor Latin · revision 7031

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Seneca|origins=la imāgō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ɪˈmaː.ɡɪ.nɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [iˈmaː.d͡ʒi.nor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''imāginor''' (present infinitive imāginārī, perfect active imāginātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[imāgō]] “image, likeness” with a verb suffix, also found as active ⟨imāginō⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Seneca, of forming a mental picture.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Seneca 4 BC–65 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis and Short call it post-Augustan.^(Lewis & Short 1879) It meant to picture to oneself, fancy, imagine, as Quintilian's remark that Cicero only imagines and invents the perfect orator, and it is used by Pliny the Elder, Tacitus and Pliny the Younger.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016) Apuleius uses it of a mirror giving an image.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to imagine, picture to oneself.^(Stelten 1995) Old French ''imaginer'' gave [[en|imagine]] in the mid-14th century.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of imagining.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it of Cicero's ideal orator.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of a mirror.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-14th century – English ''imagine'' is recorded, through Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To picture to oneself, [[m|en|imagine]], fancy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # Of a mirror, to give an image.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[imāgō]]

+ * [[imāginātiō]]

+ * [[en|imagine]]

+ * [[en|imagination]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}