Translation
to imitate, to mimic
Word origin
From Latin imitari, 'to copy, to portray', which belongs to the same family as imago, 'image'. The root arrives in Esperanto through the international scientific vocabulary rather than through any one modern language.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- imitari
- English cognates
- imitate, imitation, image
Examples
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The boy imitates his teacher's voice.
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The actor imitated the king in such a way that everyone laughed.
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Do not imitate others, find your own way.
and kopii are not interchangeable, and the difference is the same one English draws. You a document, a file, a drawing: something is reproduced, and afterwards there are two of it. You a person, a voice, a manner, an accent: nothing is reproduced, you merely behave in the likeness of something. A photocopier ; a parrot .
The transitive object is the thing being imitated, not the thing produced. means he acted like his father, and means he did his own rendition of the song rather than that he pressed a disc of it.
Around it the usual derivations behave predictably. o is imitation as an activity, o is a particular imitation as an object, and a is worth imitating, which is a compliment you will meet in Esperanto prose more often than its English equivalent. Note also that the adjective for something fake is more often or than imita, so is imitation leather.
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