The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*h₂eym-
- Latin · derived fromimāgō“a copy, likeness, image”
- Old French · derived fromimage
- Middle English · inherited fromymage
- English todayimage
From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Doublet of imago.
Words from the same roots
Latinimāgō all →
imagoimaginismimagology
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.