mimus

From Ancient Greek μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”).

mīmus m (genitive mīmī); second declension

1. mime, farce
2. mime actor (male)
3. (figurative) a farce

Second-declension noun.

• mīma

• “mimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "mimus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “mimus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “mimus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin