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imitor
imitor
Latin
Verb
imitor (present infinitive imitārī, perfect active imitātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
Inflection
| Conjugation of imitor (first conjugation, deponent) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | imitor | imitāris, imitāre | imitātur | imitāmur | imitāminī | imitantur |
| imperfect | imitābar | imitābāris, imitābāre | imitābātur | imitābāmur | imitābāminī | imitābantur | |
| future | imitābor | imitāberis, imitābere | imitābitur | imitābimur | imitābiminī | imitābuntur | |
| perfect | imitātus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | imitātus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | imitātus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | imiter | imitēris, imitēre | imitētur | imitēmur | imitēminī | imitentur |
| imperfect | imitārer | imitārēris, imitārēre | imitārētur | imitārēmur | imitārēminī | imitārentur | |
| perfect | imitātus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | imitātus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | imitāre | — | — | imitāminī | — |
| future | — | imitātor | imitātor | — | — | imitantor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | imitārī | imitātus esse | imitātūrus esse | — | — | — | |
| participles | imitāns | imitātus | imitātūrus | — | — | imitandus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| imitārī | imitandī | imitandō | imitandum | imitātum | imitātū | ||
Derived terms
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Descendants
References
- imitor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- imitor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “imitor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (1) to make a lifelike natural representation of a thing (used of the artist); (2) to be lifelike (of a work of art): veritatem imitari (Div. 1. 13. 23)
- (1) to make a lifelike natural representation of a thing (used of the artist); (2) to be lifelike (of a work of art): veritatem imitari (Div. 1. 13. 23)