imagem

From Old Galician-Portuguese ymagen, omagen, omage, from Latin imāginem (“a copy, likeness, image”), from *im-, also the root of imitor (“to copy, imitate”).

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -aʒẽj̃, (Portugal) -aʒɐ̃j̃
• Hyphenation: i‧ma‧gem

imagem f (plural imagens)

1. image; picture; figure (optical representation of an object)
   • 1902, Fernando Pessoa, Quando ela passa:

     Quando eu me sento à janela / P'los vidros qu'a neve embaça / Vejo a doce imagem d'ela / Quando passa… passa… passa…

     When I sit at the window / I see through the panes clouded by snow / The sweet image of her / When (she) passes… passes… passes…

   Synonym: figura

2. image (mental representation of something seen or imagined)
3. image (outward appearance)

   Synonyms: aparência, semelhança, semblante

4. image; face (characteristics that are first perceived by others)

   Synonym: rosto

5. (computing) image (file containing all data of a storage medium)
6. (religion) icon (small object of religious devotion)

   Synonym: ícone

7. (geometrical optics) image (a group of emitted, reflected or refracted rays of light)
8. (mathematics) image (values mapped to by a function)

   Antonym: domínio

   Coordinate term: contradomínio

For quotations using this term, see Citations:imagem.