The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromμῑμητικός“imitative”
- Latin · borrowed frommīmēticus
- English todaymimetic
From Latin mīmēticus or its etymon Ancient Greek μῑμητικός (mīmētikós, “imitative”). By surface analysis, mime + -etic.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.