imitatio

Latin

Etymology

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

Noun

imitātiō f (genitive imitātiōnis); third declension

1. imitation

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	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^[1], 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