similitudo

From similis (“like, resembling, similar”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /si.mi.liˈtuː.doː/, [sɪ.mɪ.lɪˈtuː.doː]

similitūdō f (genitive similitūdinis); third declension

1. Likeness, resemblance, similarity; imitation.
2. A comparison, simile, similitude; analogy; parable.
3. Sameness, uniformity, monotony.

Third declension.

• (comparison): aequiparantia, collātiō, comparātiō, parabola
• (likeness, similitude): assimulātiō, instar, simulācrum

• (likeness, resemblance): dissimilitūdō

• vērīsimilitūdō

• English: similitude
• French: similitude
• Italian: similitudine
• Spanish: similitud

• 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• similitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to cite parallel cases: similitudines afferre