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語源

From French imitateur, derived from Latin imitātor, equivalent to imitate +‎ -or.

発音

名詞

imitator (plural imitators)

1. A person who imitates or apes another.

   Synonym: aper

   • 2021 October 22, Brian Lowry, “TV OT: The aliens are coming! The aliens are coming! Plus: ‘Curb’ and ‘Insecure’ return”, in CNN‎:

     Chalk it up to the government’s revelations in recent years about UFOs, or maybe just the pendulum swinging back, again, after “The X-Files” inspired a host of imitators in the 1990s.

   • 2021 December 9, Rob Kuznia, Curt Devine and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, “Epik is a refuge for the deplatformed far right. Here’s why its CEO insists on doing it”, in CNN‎:

     Other far-right sites would gravitate to Epik. Among the first to announce its migration in early 2019 was BitChute, a YouTube imitator that had been blocked by PayPal.

派生語

関連する語

• imitate

参照

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Imitator”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• Mariotti, Timariot

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ɪ.mɪˈtaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [i.miˈtaː.tor]

名詞

imitātor m (genitive imitātōris); third declension

1. imitator
2. mimic

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

派生した語

動詞

imitātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of imitor

参照

• “imitator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imitator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “imitator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.