imago

From Latin imāgō. Doublet of image.

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

• imagology

• MOGAI, amigo

• imágo

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪmaɡo]

imago n

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

   Synonym: dospělec

• imago in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• 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

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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

• imidž

From Latin imāgō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈimɑɡo/, [ˈimɑɡo̞]
• Rhymes: -imɑɡo
• Syllabification^(key): i‧ma‧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

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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, Sanskrit यम (yáma, “pair, twin”), Old English emn, efn (“equal, level, even”). More at even.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /iˈmaː.ɡoː/, [ɪˈmäːɡoː]
• (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
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, 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

• IPA^(key): /iˈma.ɡɔ/

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

imago n

1. (entomology) imago
2. (psychology) imago

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

From French imago.

imago f (uncountable)

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

• 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014