Where does “image” come from?
image (French) comes from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem, from Latin im-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
image (French): picture, image; frame; first-person singular...
Definitions
- picture, image; frame; first-person singular...
Ancestry of “image”, step by step
image traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Portuguese imagem
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 2 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 3 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 4 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 5 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Old French image
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old French | image | sight; image; statue |