imagem

imagem f (plural imagens, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of imaxe

• “imagem” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

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)

2. 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

4. image (mental representation of something seen or imagined)
6. image (outward appearance)

   Synonyms: aparência, semelhança, semblante

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

   Synonym: rosto

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

    Synonym: ícone

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

    Antonym: domínio

    Coordinate term: contradomínio

For quotations using this term, see Citations:imagem.

• “imagem” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “imagem”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “imagem”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024