English → Latin
“imitative” in Latin
imitorto represent, express, portray; to imitate, act like, copy after, seek to resemble, counterfeitimitātīvusimitativearsart, skill, craft, handicraft; trade, occupation, employment; cunning, artifice, fraud, stratagem
The English word imitative itself goes back to Latin imitō, through imitātīvus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
imitative
qui (quae, quod) imitatur, with proper accusative. To be imitative of anything, imitari aliquid: imitative joy, adumbrata laetitia (Tac., Ann., 4, 31): imitative sagacity, mentita sagacitas (Plin., Pan., 81). The imitative arts, artes, quae in effictu positae sunt; artes effectivae (Quint., 2, 18, 2 and 5); but the meaning is far wider; all the arts that produce some visible thing by their operation = ποιητική).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for imitative?
- The usual Latin words for “imitative” are imitor, imitātīvus, ars. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.