"image, picture" in seven languages
Meaningimage, picture
Spanish
imagen
/iˈmaxen/
fem.learned
plural: imágenes
French
image
/imaʒ/
fem.learned
Italian
immagine
/imˈmadʒine/
fem.learned
Portuguese
imagem
/iˈmaʒẽj/
fem.learned
Romanian
imagine
/iˈmadʒine/
fem.learned
Catalan
imatge
/iˈmadʒə/
fem.learned
English
image
/ˈɪmɪdʒ/
from Latin/French · Old French image
English → Italianimage, pictureimmagineCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
IMĀGINEM (nom. IMĀGŌ)‘likeness, picture’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Spanish dropped the final vowel, Italian doubled the m, and each reads the g before i or e its own way: x, ʒ, dʒ. The plural imágenes needs a written accent to keep its stress.
English relatives: imagine, imagination, imaginary
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In a sentence
- esLa imagen está borrosa.
- frL'image est floue.
- itL'immagine è sfocata.
- ptA imagem está borrada.
- roImaginea este neclară.
- caLa imatge està borrosa.
- enThe image is blurry.
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