Etymology

imaginism

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Today it means: A Russian avant-garde poetic movement, founded in 1918, whose members created poetry based on sequences of arresting and uncommon images. Full definition →

Russian имажини́зм ← Latin imāgō
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  1. Latin · derived fromimāgō“image, representation”
  2. Russian · borrowed fromимажини́зм
  3. English todayimaginism

From Russian имажини́зм (imažinízm), from Latin imāgō (“image, representation”).

Words from the same roots

Latinimāgō all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.