English
imitancy
Imitancy comes from Latin imitāns ‘imitating, copying, counterfeiting’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimitāns‘imitating, copying, counterfeiting’
- Englishearliest quotation 1832imitancy
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimitāns‘imitating, copying, counterfeiting’
- Englishearliest quotation 1832imitancy
Earliest quotation: 1832, Thomas Carlyle: “Or, the servile imitancy, and yet also a nobler…”
Every English word from Latin imitāns
Today it means
noun Tendency to imitation.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin imitāns / imitancy