Imaginative
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Middle English: via Old French from Latin imaginatio(n- ), from the verb imaginari ‘picture to oneself’, from imago, imagin- ‘image’.
wiktionary
From Middle English ymagynatif, from Middle French imaginatif, from Medieval Latin imāginātīvus.
etymonline
imaginative (adj.)
late 14c., ymaginatyf, "pertaining to imagination; forming images, given to imagining," from Old French imaginatif and directly from Medieval Latin imaginativus, from imaginat-, stem of Latin imaginari "picture to oneself" (see imagine). Meaning "resulting from imagination" is from 1829. Related: Imaginatively; imaginativeness.
