imaginé

Imaginé is the masculine singular past participle of the French verb imaginer, meaning to imagine. In ordinary use it forms compound tenses with the auxiliary avoir, as in j'ai imaginé une histoire. When the direct object precedes the participle, imaginé may agree in gender and number (e.g., l'histoire que j'ai imaginée, les idées que nous avons imaginées).

Etymology and meaning: imaginé derives from imaginer, which in turn comes from Late Latin imagināre and the root imago meaning image. The word conveys the act of forming ideas, pictures, or concepts in the mind, or something that exists only in the imagination.

As an adjective, imaginé describes something conceived or imagined rather than real. It is commonly used to characterize plans, worlds, or scenarios that were created mentally, such as un monde imaginé or un plan imaginé. The expression imaginé de toutes pièces is used to emphasize that something was entirely fabricated or contrived.

In modern French, imaginé appears in both literary and everyday styles, often to convey creativity, hypothesis, or fiction. It can be contrasted with réel (real) or factuel (factual). Related terms include imaginer (to imagine), imagination (l’imagination), and image-related roots such as image or imagé in other contexts.

See also: imaginer, imagination, imagé (as a related adjective form in other phrases).