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imitation
c.1500, from O.Fr.
imitacion
, from L.
imitationem
(nom.
imitatio
) "imitation," from
imitari
"to copy, portray, imitate," from PIE
*im-eto-,
from base
*aim-
"copy." (Related to L.
imago,
see
image
). The verb
imitate
is first recorded 1530s.
