“image” in Latin

sibi imaginem alicujus proponere (of a person; in Cic., memoriam atque imaginem): speciem alicujus rei cogitare (Cic.): alicujus rei speciem et formam adumbrare (form an ideal notion of it, Cic.): aliquid sibi depingere (e.g. in illa republica, quam sibi Socrates... depinxerit, Cic., Rep., 2, 29): aliquid cogitatione depingere (Cic., N.D., 1, 15, 39).

imago: simulacrum: effigies: statua: signum: tabula: pictura (simulacrum, imago, and effigies denote an image as the copy of some reality, which is, therefore, expressed by a general case or some adjective, unless it is implied by the context. Simulacrum and imago are the more general terms, denoting the likeness of anything, whether in painting or sculpture, or only in the imagination; effigies, statua, and signum relate only to plastic itnages; tabula and pictura to painted ones. Imago = εἰκών, is more a natural image, with reference to its likeness; simulacrum: = εἴδωλον, an artificial image, with reference to its deceptiveness; effigies, with reference to its artistic execution. Imagines may be half-length portraits, and effigies, busts; whereas simulacra are generally, and a statua always images of the whole figure. Signum is a general expression for a plastic image, whether a bust or a whole-length; but signum, like simulacrum, is used by the best authors of statues of a god especially; statua being exclusively that of a man; Schulz. To this should be added, that effigies may also be a mental image, as far as this stands, as it were, before us). (The words are found in this connection and order.) effigies simulacrumque: effigies et imago (☞ effigies, simulacrum hominis, his mere likeness; opposed to ipse homo; Cic., Verr. 2, 2, 55): imago picta: imago ficta (distinguished in Cic., Fam., 1, 12, 7; the former painted, the latter modelled or cast; also, figura fictilis, Cic.): clipeus (a likeness of the bust only, executed in silver or gold on a shield- like plate, scutum; mostly as a votive offering; Vid: Suet., Brem. Cal., 16). To make images, signa fabricari: to make images of wax, fingere e cerā, (Cic.). A brazen image, simulacrum ex aere factum (or imago... facta); signum aeneum: an image of clay, plaster of Paris, etc., imago fictilis (also, similitudo ex argillā, in clay, Plin.): a little image, imaguncula (general term, Suet.); sigillum, icuncula (modelled in wax, etc.). An image in alto-relievo, ectypon; in half-relief, protypon: a full sized image, simulacrum iconicum; effigies iconica: an image of colossal size, statua colossea (so Nero jusserat colosseum se fingi): an exact image, effigies solida et expressa: effigies eminens (opposed to umbra et imago, or imago adumbrata, sketched in a light manner; all IMPROP., Cic., Off., 17, 69). To make man in the image of the gods, fingere hominem in effigiem deorum (Ov.; Cic. has deus... effigies hominis et imago). To make an image of anybody or anything, imaginem alicujus or alicujus rei exprimere (with graving-tool, pen, or spoken words): to convey an image of anybody or anything (in words), dicendo effingere alicujus rei imaginem; depingere (verbis), or describere aliquid or aliquem: to sketch an image of anything, aliquid adumbrare; speciem et formam alicujus rei adumbrare (PROP., with the graving-tool; or IMPROP., with words). To sketch an image after the life, *imaginem alicujus ad verum (☞ not ad vivum) describere.

As representation of anything in the mind, imago: species: forma: (The words are found in this connection and order.) species et forma: informatio. A faint or indistinct image, imago adumbrata: adumbratio (Vid: above). To picture to one’s self the image of anything, fingere cogitatione alicujus rei imaginem; rem cogitatione depingere; cogitatione et mente complecti aliquid; animo effingere aliquid; aliquid in animo informare. The image of anything appears to me, imago alicujus rei ad animum meum refertur, or in animum meum recurrit or in me incidit (Cic., N.D., 2, 38).

Figure of speech, Vid:

Used for exact resemblance; by circumlocution. He is the exact image of his father, insignem patris similitudinem prae se fert; mira similitudine totum patrem exscripsit: to be the image of anybody in any respect, ex aliqua re similitudinem speciemque alicujus gerere.