similitudo

== Latin == === Etymology === From similis (“like, resembling, similar”) + -tūdō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sɪ.mɪ.lɪˈtuː.doː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [si.mi.liˈtuː.do] === Noun === similitūdō f (genitive similitūdinis); third declension Likeness, resemblance, similarity; imitation. A comparison, simile, similitude; analogy; parable. Sameness, uniformity, monotony. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== (comparison): aequiparantia, collātiō, comparātiō, parabola (likeness, similitude): assimulātiō, instar, simulācrum ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “likeness, resemblance”): dissimilitūdō ==== Derived terms ==== vērīsimilitūdō ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Old Galician-Portuguese: semelduẽ → English: similitude → French: similitude → Italian: similitudine → Romanian: similitudine → Spanish: similitud === References === “similitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “similitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "similitudo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “similitudo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.