🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典 🎯

檢索以下詞典:
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯!)
最近搜尋:
BNC: 0 COCA: 31595

imago

noun

plural imagoes or imagines i-ˈmā-gə-ˌnēz How to pronounce imago (audio) -ˈmä- How to pronounce imago (audio)
-ˈmā-jə-,
-ˈma-
1
: an insect in its final, adult, sexually mature, and typically winged state
2
: an idealized mental image of another person or the self

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Other species, such as grasshoppers and dragonflies, experience incomplete, or simple, metamorphosis, which involves three life stages—egg, larva or nymph, and adult or imago. Liz Langley, National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2020 Newbell, who is Black, had spoken about imago Dei -- the idea that all humans, of all races, are made in the image and likeness of God. Daniel Burke, CNN, 10 July 2020

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from New Latin imāgō, going back to Latin imāgin-, imāgō "representation, semblance, image entry 1"

Note: As a descriptive term for insects apparently introduced by linnaeus in Systema naturae, 12th edition, vol. 1, part 2 (Stockholm, 1767), p. 535. Linnaeus's conception was that the imago was the true representation of the creature, the earlier stages of larva (Latin larva, taken to mean "ghost") and pupa (Latin pūpa "doll") being in a sense illusory.

First Known Use

1787, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of imago was in 1787

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 韋氏詞典 📚 – mw.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime