imitate

Englisch

Etymology

From Latin imitatus, past participle of imito (“to copy, portray, imitate”).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈɪmɪteɪt/
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Verb

1. To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart oder semblance of.
   • 1870, Shirley Hibberd, Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste (page 170)

     Another bird quickly learned to imitate the song of a canary that was mated with it, but as the parrakeet improved in the performance the canary degenerated, and came at last to mingle the other bird's harsh chitterings with its own proper music.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

Antonyms

• create

Related terms

• imitation
• imitative
• imitable
• imitator

Translations

to follow as a model

• Armenian: ընդօրինակել (hy) (əndōrinakel)
• Asturian: imitar
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: подражавам (bg) (podražavam), имитирам (bg) (imitiram)
• Catalan: imitar (ca)
• Czech: napodobit
• Dutch: nabootsen (nl), imiteren (nl)
• Estonian: matkima
• Finnish: matkia (fi)
• French: imiter (fr)
• Galician: imitar, arremedar
• German: imitieren (de)
• Hungarian: utánoz (hu), imitál
• Italian: imitare (it)
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• Japanese: 倣う (ja) (narau), 真似る (maneru), 模倣する (mohō suru)
• Malay: tiru
• Maore Comorian: utiba
• Maori: whakatau
• Polish: naśladować (pl)
• Portuguese: imitar (pt)
• Russian: подража́ть (ru) (podražátʹ), имитировать (ru) (imitirovatʹ)
• Slovene: oponašati, posnemati (sl), imitirati
• Spanish: imitar (es)
• Swahili: kuiga (sw)
• Swedish: imitera (sv) (1), imitera (sv), härma (sv) (2)
• Telugu: అనుకరించు (te) (anukariñcu)
• Vietnamese: nhái (vi)

Further reading

• “imitate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “imitate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

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Italian

Verb

imitate

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) second-person plural present indicative of imitare
2. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) second-person plural imperative of imitare
3. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) feminine plural of imitato

Anagrams

• ematiti

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) imitāte

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) vocative masculine singular of imitātus