imitor
Latin
Etymology
Deponent frequentative verb derived from Proto-Italic *imā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym- (“to imitate”); same source as Latin imāgō f (“a copy, image”), Latin aemulus (“envious, rivaling”, adjective) and Hittite 𒄭𒅎𒈠𒀸 c (ḫi-im-ma-aš /ḫimmaš/, “substitute, imitation”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɪ.mɪ.tɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈiː.mi.t̪or]
Verb
imitor (present infinitive imitārī or imitārier, perfect active imitātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
Conjugation
Conjugation of imitor (first conjugation, deponent)
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | imitor | imitāris, imitāre |
imitātur | imitāmur | imitāminī | imitantur | ||||||
| imperfect | imitābar | imitābāris, imitābāre |
imitābātur | imitābāmur | imitābāminī | imitābantur | |||||||
| future | imitābor | imitāberis, imitābere |
imitābitur | imitābimur | imitābiminī | imitābuntur | |||||||
| perfect | imitātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | imitātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| future perfect | imitātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | imiter | imitēris, imitēre |
imitētur | imitēmur | imitēminī | imitentur | ||||||
| imperfect | imitārer | imitārēris, imitārēre |
imitārētur | imitārēmur | imitārēminī | imitārentur | |||||||
| perfect | imitātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| pluperfect | imitātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | imitāre | — | — | imitāminī | — | ||||||
| future | — | imitātor | imitātor | — | — | imitantor | |||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | imitārī, imitārier1 |
— | imitāns | — | |||||||||
| future | imitātūrum esse | — | imitātūrus | imitandus | |||||||||
| perfect | imitātum esse | — | imitātus | — | |||||||||
| future perfect | imitātum fore | — | — | — | |||||||||
| perfect potential | imitātūrum fuisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| imitandī | imitandō | imitandum | imitandō | imitātum | imitātū | ||||||||
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Asturian: imitar
- → Catalan: imitar
- ⇒ Latin: imitātus
- → English: imitate
- → French: imiter
- → Galician: imitar
- → Italian: imitare
- → Piedmontese: imité
- → Portuguese: imitar
- → Romanian: imita
- → Spanish: imitar
From *reimitor:
References
- “imitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “imitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- imitor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (1) to make a lifelike natural representation of a thing (used of the artist); (2) to be lifelike (of a work of art): veritatem imitari (Div. 1. 13. 23)
- (1) to make a lifelike natural representation of a thing (used of the artist); (2) to be lifelike (of a work of art): veritatem imitari (Div. 1. 13. 23)