English
imaginant
Imaginant comes from Latin imaginans ‘imagining’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimaginans‘imagining’
- Englishearliest quotation 1627imaginant
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimaginans‘imagining’
- Englishearliest quotation 1627imaginant
Earliest quotation: 1627, (please specify the page, or |century=I to X): “the force of Imagination is , either upon the…”
Every English word from Latin imaginans
Today it means
adj imagining; conceiving, or imaginative
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin imaginans / imaginant