Where does “imager” come from?
imager (French) comes from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine, from Latin imāginem, from Latin im-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
imager (French): to embellish with images
Ancestry of “imager”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 2 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 3 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 4 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 5 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 6 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 8 | Latin | în | — |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |