similiter Latin · revision 32683

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *sm̥h₂-el-i-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''similiter''' (comparative similius, superlative simillimē); adverb^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|similis|-ter|t1=like]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces [[m|la|similis]] to [[itc-pro|*semali-|t=alike, together]] and [[ine-pro|*sm̥h₂-el-i-]], comparing [[sga|samail|t=similar]] and [[grc|ὁμαλός|tr=homalós|t=equal, level]].^(de Vaan 2008) Lewis & Short note an older form of the adverb, [[simulter]], in Plautus.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its first quotation is in Plautus: in the ''Menaechmi'' a man asks whether his imitation is at all lifelike.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means in a similar way, as before or as elsewhere: the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' asks whether anything has been written or judged in the same way in different matters.^(OLD 2012) Of things compared with each other it is alike: Varro has things that all correspond to one another alike.^(OLD 2012) With a dative or a comparison it is in the same way as: Vitruvius says the rest are to be explained like these.^(OLD 2012) Of imitation and portraiture it is with close likeness, lifelike.^(OLD 2012) Cicero uses it of word endings that sound alike.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates it from Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a lifelike imitation.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 116–27 BC – Varro of forms that correspond alike.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of endings that sound alike.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 84–c. 25 BC – Vitruvius with the dative.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # In a [[m|en|similar]] way, likewise, alike.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # In the same way as (with dative or ''ac'', ''atque'', ''ut'').^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # With close resemblance, [[m|en|lifelike]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[similis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}