imitator

• imitatour (obsolete)

From French imitateur, derived from Latin imitātor, equivalent to imitate +‎ -or.

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imitator (plural imitators)

1. A person who imitates or apes another.

   Synonym: aper

   • 2021 October 22, Brian Lowry, “TV OT: The aliens are coming! The aliens are coming! Plus: ‘Curb’ and ‘Insecure’ return”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Chalk it up to the government’s revelations in recent years about UFOs, or maybe just the pendulum swinging back, again, after “The X-Files” inspired a host of imitators in the 1990s.

   • 2021 December 9, Rob Kuznia, Curt Devine and Yahya Abou-Ghazala, “Epik is a refuge for the deplatformed far right. Here’s why its CEO insists on doing it”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Other far-right sites would gravitate to Epik. Among the first to announce its migration in early 2019 was BitChute, a YouTube imitator that had been blocked by PayPal.

• imitate

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Imitator”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

• Mariotti, Timariot

From imitor + -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪ.mɪˈtaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [i.miˈtaː.tor]

imitātor m (genitive imitātōris); third declension

1. imitator
2. mimic

Third-declension noun.

imitātor

1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of imitor

• “imitator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imitator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “imitator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Latin imitator.

imitator m (definite singular imitatoren, indefinite plural imitatorer, definite plural imitatorene)

1. an imitator

• imitere

• “imitator” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “imitator” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From Latin imitator.

imitator m (definite singular imitatoren, indefinite plural imitatorar, definite plural imitatorane)

1. an imitator

• imitere

• “imitator” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Internationalism; compare English imitator, French imitateur, German Imitator, ultimately from Latin imitātor.

• IPA^(key): /i.miˈta.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: i‧mi‧ta‧tor

imitator m pers (female equivalent imitatorka, related adjective imitatorski)

1. imitator, ape, copycat, mimic (person who imitates or apes another)

   Synonyms: naśladowca, naśladownik

imitator m inan

1. simulator (machine or system that simulates an environment (such as an aircraft cockpit), often for training purposes)

   Synonym: symulator

• “imitator”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “imitator”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Borrowed from French imitateur. Equivalent to imita +‎ -tor.

imitator m (plural imitatori)

1. copycat

• IPA^(key): /imǐtaːtor/
• Hyphenation: i‧mi‧ta‧tor

imìtātor m anim (Cyrillic spelling имѝта̄тор)

1. imitator