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- Ancient Greek · derived fromμῑμέομαι
- English todaymimeme
Anglicized as if from a noun derived from Ancient Greek μῑμέομαι (mīméomai) with the deverbal suffix -μα (-ma), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitation, copy”). By surface analysis, mime + -eme.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.