## Meanings
1. To copy the way someone speaks, behaves, or looks.
2. To use someone or something as a model and try to be like it.
3. To make a copy or close version of something.

## Examples
- The comedian could imitate the president's voice perfectly.
- Young children often imitate their parents' habits.
- The cheap material was made to imitate real leather.

## Antonyms
- create
- innovate

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *h₂eym-

## Etymology
Borrowed from Latin imitātus, perfect active participle of imitor (“to copy, portray, imitate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French imiter.

## AI Etymology
Imitate is borrowed from Latin imitātus, perfect active participle of imitor (“to copy, portray, imitate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French imiter. The historical line also includes *h₂eym- (Proto-Indo-European). In current use, the main senses are “To copy the way someone speaks, behaves, or looks” and “To use someone or something as a model and try to be like it”.

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