imago

From Latin imāgō.

• (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

• 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

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]
• Hyphenation: i‧ma‧go

imago

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

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/, [ɪˈmaː.ɡoː]

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, 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/

imago n

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

• imago in Polish dictionaries at PWN