Imagination

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Middle English: via Old French from Latin imaginatio(n- ), from the verb imaginari ‘picture to oneself’, from imago, imagin- ‘image’.

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From Middle English ymaginacioun, from Old French imaginacion, ymaginacion, from Latin imāginātiō.

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imagination (n.)

"faculty of the mind which forms and manipulates images," mid-14c., ymaginacion, from Old French imaginacion "concept, mental picture; hallucination," from Latin imaginationem (nominative imaginatio) "imagination, a fancy," noun of action from past participle stem of imaginari "to form an image of, represent"), from imago "an image, a likeness," from stem of imitari "to copy, imitate" (from PIE root *aim- "to copy")