Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To imitate, especially in order to ridicule. · To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
A mime. · A comic who does impressions. · An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator. · An imitation.
Pertaining to mimicry; imitative. · Mock, pretended. · Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.
Etymology tree Ancient Greek μῖμος (mîmos) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) Ancient Greek μῑμικός (mīmikós)bor. Latin mīmicus English mimic From Latin mīmicus, from Ancient Greek μῑμικός (mīmikós, “belonging to mimes”), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”); see mime.
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- Unspecified derivation mentionμῑμικόςgrc
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