In Genoese, many lemmas that display the prefix in- owe it to the dissimilation of an ancient Latin double consonant: thus we find inlustrâ < from illustrem, inmenso < immensus, inludde < illudere, etc. Other terms instead directly preserve the Latin prefix, as in inscrive < inscribere. Finally, there are forms created by analogy, such as inmanegâ. The case of words such as imagine < imaginem is completely different, as they never had either the prefix in- or a double consonant: in these cases the spelling in- is justified neither etymologically nor phonetically. Forms such as inmaginegarded as hypercorrections based on Italian and should be avoided.