imitatio

Latin

Etymology

Formed from imitor (“imitate”) +‎ -tiō (“-tion”).

Noun

imitātiō f (genitive imitātiōnis); third declension

1. imitation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	imitātiō	imitātiōnēs
genitive	imitātiōnis	imitātiōnum
dative	imitātiōnī	imitātiōnibus
accusative	imitātiōnem	imitātiōnēs
ablative	imitātiōne	imitātiōnibus
vocative	imitātiō	imitātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: imitació
• Galician: imitación
• Georgian: იმიტაცია (imiṭacia)
• → German: Imitation
• Italian: imitazione
• Occitan: imitacion
• → Old French: imitacion
  • Middle French: imitation, imitacion
    • French: imitation
      • → Dutch: imitatie
        • Afrikaans: imitasie
        • → Indonesian: imitasi
    • → Middle English: imitacioun
      • English: imitation
• Portuguese: imitação
• Romanian: imitație
• Russian: имитация (imitacija)
• Spanish: imitación

References

• “imitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "imitatio", 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)
• “imitatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • in everything nature defies imitation: in omni re vincit imitationem veritas
    
  • a lifelike picture of everyday life: morum ac vitae imitatio