imago

From Latin imāgō. Doublet of image.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmeɪɡəʊ/, /ɪˈmɑːɡəʊ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmeɪɡoʊ/, /ɪˈmɑɡoʊ/

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 unconsciously into adult life, the basis for the psychological formation of personality archetypes.

• imago clipeata
• imagology

• MOGAI, amigo

• imágo

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪmaɡo]

imago n

1. imago (final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis)

   Synonym: dospělec

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• “imago”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• imago in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

From Latin imago.

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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

(1) * image

• IPA^(key): [iˈmaɡo]

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• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Hyphenation: i‧ma‧go

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

1. imagination

From Latin imago.

imago (genitive imago, partitive imagot)

1. image (a characteristic of a person, group or company etc.)
2. (zoology) imago, fully grown insect

Declension of imago (ÕS type 1/ohutu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		imago	imagod
accusative	nom.
	gen.	imago
genitive			imagote
partitive		imagot	imagoid
illative		imagosse	imagotesse imagoisse
inessive		imagos	imagotes imagois
elative		imagost	imagotest imagoist
allative		imagole	imagotele imagoile
adessive		imagol	imagotel imagoil
ablative		imagolt	imagotelt imagoilt
translative		imagoks	imagoteks imagoiks
terminative		imagoni	imagoteni
essive		imagona	imagotena
abessive		imagota	imagoteta
comitative		imagoga	imagotega

• imidž

From Latin imāgō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈimɑɡo/, [ˈimɑ̝ɡo̞]
• Rhymes: -imɑɡo
• Hyphenation^(key): ima‧go

imago

1. image (a characteristic of a person, group or company, how one is, or wishes to be, perceived by others)
2. (entomology) imago

• “imago”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• IPA^(key): /i.ma.ɡo/

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imago f (plural imagos)

1. (entomology) imago (final stage of insect)
2. (psychology) imago (idealized image of a loved one)

• “imago”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• immago

Borrowed from Latin imāgō. Doublet of immagine.

• IPA^(key): /iˈma.ɡo/
• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Hyphenation: i‧mà‧go

imago f (invariable)

1. (archaic, poetic) Synonym of immagine
2. (entomology) imago (development stage of an insect)
3. (psychology) imago (idealised/idealized concept of a loved one)

• imago¹ in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• imago² in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• magio, mogia

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /iˈmaː.ɡoː/, [ɪˈmäːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /iˈma.ɡo/, [iˈmäːɡo]

imāgō f (genitive imāginis); third declension

1. image, imitation, likeness, statue, representation
2. ancestral image
3. ghost, apparition
4. semblance, appearance, shadow
5. echo

   Synonym: ēchō f

6. conception, thought
7. reminder
8. (rhetoric) comparison
9. (art) depiction

Third-declension noun.

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

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• imago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], 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
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 298

Internationalism; compare English imago, French imago, German Imago, ultimately from Latin imāgō. Doublet of image.

• IPA^(key): /iˈma.ɡɔ/

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• Rhymes: -aɡɔ
• Syllabification: i‧ma‧go

imago n (indeclinable)

1. (entomology, lepidopterology) imago (final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis)

   Synonyms: owad dorosły, owad doskonały

   Coordinate terms: larwa, poczwarka

2. (psychoanalysis) imago (idealized concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unconsciously into adult life, the basis for the psychological formation of personality archetypes)
3. image forming part of an emblem

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Indeclinable.

• imago in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• imago in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French imago.

imago f (uncountable)

1. (entomology) imago (final stage of insect)

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• IPA^(key): /iˈmaɡo/ [iˈma.ɣ̞o]
• Rhymes: -aɡo
• Syllabification: i‧ma‧go

imago m (plural imagos)

1. (entomology) imago

imago f (plural imagos)

1. (psychology) imago

• “imago”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28