simulacrum

• IPA^(key): /ˌsimjəˈleɪkɹəm/

simulacrum (plural simulacrums or simulacra)

1. An image or representation.

   a simulacrum of a New York studio apartment

2. A faint trace or semblance.

   a simulacrum of hope

From simulō

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /si.muˈlaː.krum/, [sɪ.mʊˈɫaː.krũ]

simulācrum n (genitive simulācrī); second declension

1. an image, likeness

Second declension.

• (image, likeness): effigies, imāgō, statua

• French: simulacre
• Spanish: simulacro

• simulacrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• simulacrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• simulacrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• simulacrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to make a marble statue: simulacrum e marmore facere