"simulacrum" meaning in All languages combined

See simulacrum on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˌsɪmjʊəˈleɪkɹəm/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌsɪmjəˈleɪkɹəm/ [General-American], /ˌsɪmjʊəˈleɪkɹə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌsɪmjəˈleɪkɹə/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-simulacrum.wav [Southern-England] Forms: simulacra [plural], simulacrums [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin simulācrum (“image, likeness”), from simulāre + -crum (a variant of -culum, from Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, a suffix forming instrument nouns). Simulāre is the present active infinitive of simulō (“to represent, simulate”) from similis (“similar (to)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; together”). The plural form simulacra is a learned borrowing from Latin simulācra. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*sem-|*-lós}}, {{lbor|en|la|simulācrum|t=image, likeness}} Learned borrowing from Latin simulācrum (“image, likeness”), {{m|la|simulāre}} simulāre, {{m|la|-crum}} -crum, {{m|la|-culum}} -culum, {{der|en|ine-pro|*-tlom}} Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, {{m|la||Simulāre}} Simulāre, {{glossary|present}} present, {{glossary|active}} active, {{glossary|infinitive}} infinitive, {{m|la|simulō|t=to represent, simulate}} simulō (“to represent, simulate”), {{m|la|similis|t=similar (to)}} similis (“similar (to)”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*sem-|t=one; together}} Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; together”), {{glossary|plural}} plural, {{m|en|simulacra}} simulacra, {{lbor|en|la|simulācra|nocap=1}} learned borrowing from Latin simulācra Head templates: {{en-noun|simulacra|s}} simulacrum (plural simulacra or simulacrums)
  1. A physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing. Translations (physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing): սիմուլակր (simulakr) (Armenian), образ (obraz) [masculine] (Bulgarian), подобие (podobie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), simulacre [masculine] (Catalan), kuva (Finnish), malli (Finnish), simulacre [masculine] (French), Simulacrum [neuter] (German), Simulakrum [neuter] (German), απείκασμα (apeíkasma) [neuter] (Greek), επίφαση (epífasi) [feminine] (Greek), simulacro [masculine] (Italian), при́видност (prívidnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), сли́ка (slíka) [feminine] (Macedonian), при́вид (prívid) [masculine] (Macedonian), symulakrum [neuter] (Polish), simulacro [masculine] (Portuguese), simulacru [neuter] (Romanian), симулакрум [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), simulacro [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-simulacrum-en-noun-sj41wNbc Disambiguation of 'physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing': 98 2
  2. A thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities; a thing which simulates another thing; an imitation, a semblance. Synonyms: simulant, simulation Translations (thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities): simulakrumi (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-simulacrum-en-noun-8tl4f2dd Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 82 Disambiguation of 'thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities': 3 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: icon, replica

Noun [Latin]

IPA: /si.muˈlaː.krum/ [Classical], [s̠ɪmʊˈɫ̪äːkrʊ̃ˑ] [Classical], /si.muˈla.krum/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [simuˈläːkrum] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From simulā(re) + -crum (a variant of -culum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, a suffix forming instrument nouns). Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*sem-}}, {{suffix|la|simulāre|crum|alt1=simulā(re)}} simulā(re) + -crum, {{m|la|-culum}} -culum, {{der|la|ine-pro|*-tlom}} Proto-Indo-European *-tlom Head templates: {{la-noun|simulācrum<2>}} simulācrum n (genitive simulācrī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|simulācrum<2>}} Forms: simulācrum [canonical, neuter], simulācrī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], simulācrum [nominative, singular], simulācra [nominative, plural], simulācrī [genitive, singular], simulācrōrum [genitive, plural], simulācrō [dative, singular], simulācrīs [dative, plural], simulācrum [accusative, singular], simulācra [accusative, plural], simulācrō [ablative, singular], simulācrīs [ablative, plural], simulācrum [singular, vocative], simulācra [plural, vocative]
  1. image, likeness, statue, effigy, portrait Tags: declension-2 Categories (topical): Appearance Synonyms: effigiēs, imāgō, statua
    Sense id: en-simulacrum-la-noun-W5-IJthJ Disambiguation of Appearance: 75 25 Categories (other): Latin neuter nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 50 50
  2. specter, ghost, phantom; mimicry, imitation Tags: declension-2
    Sense id: en-simulacrum-la-noun-3UUj6PYH Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin neuter nouns in the second declension, Latin terms suffixed with -crum Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 21 79 Disambiguation of Latin neuter nouns in the second declension: 50 50 Disambiguation of Latin terms suffixed with -crum: 32 68

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for simulacrum meaning in All languages combined (13.7kB)

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "symulakrum",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: symulakrum",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: symulakrum"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*sem-",
        "4": "*-lós"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "simulācrum",
        "t": "image, likeness"
      },
      "expansion": "Learned borrowing from Latin simulācrum (“image, likeness”)",
      "name": "lbor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "simulāre"
      },
      "expansion": "simulāre",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-crum"
      },
      "expansion": "-crum",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-culum"
      },
      "expansion": "-culum",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*-tlom"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *-tlom",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "",
        "3": "Simulāre"
      },
      "expansion": "Simulāre",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "present"
      },
      "expansion": "present",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "active"
      },
      "expansion": "active",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "infinitive"
      },
      "expansion": "infinitive",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "simulō",
        "t": "to represent, simulate"
      },
      "expansion": "simulō (“to represent, simulate”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "similis",
        "t": "similar (to)"
      },
      "expansion": "similis (“similar (to)”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*sem-",
        "t": "one; together"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; together”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "plural"
      },
      "expansion": "plural",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "simulacra"
      },
      "expansion": "simulacra",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "simulācra",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "learned borrowing from Latin simulācra",
      "name": "lbor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin simulācrum (“image, likeness”), from simulāre + -crum (a variant of -culum, from Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, a suffix forming instrument nouns). Simulāre is the present active infinitive of simulō (“to represent, simulate”) from similis (“similar (to)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; together”).\nThe plural form simulacra is a learned borrowing from Latin simulācra.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "simulacra",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulacrums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "simulacra",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "simulacrum (plural simulacra or simulacrums)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sim‧u‧la‧crum",
    "sim‧u‧la‧cra"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "icon"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "replica"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a simulacrum of a New York studio apartment",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing."
      ],
      "id": "en-simulacrum-en-noun-sj41wNbc",
      "links": [
        [
          "physical",
          "physical#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "image",
          "image#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "representation",
          "representation"
        ],
        [
          "deity",
          "deity"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "simulakr",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "word": "սիմուլակր"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "obraz",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "образ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "podobie",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "подобие"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "simulacre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "word": "kuva"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "word": "malli"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "simulacre"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Simulacrum"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Simulakrum"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "apeíkasma",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "απείκασμα"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "epífasi",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "επίφαση"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "simulacro"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "prívidnost",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "при́видност"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "slíka",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "сли́ка"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "prívid",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "при́вид"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "symulakrum"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "simulacro"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "simulacru"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "симулакрум"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "simulacro"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Ling Ma, chapter 1, in Severance, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 13",
          "text": "The future just wants more consumers. The future is more newly arrived college grads and tourists in some fruitless search for authenticity. The future is more overpriced Pabsts at dive-bar simulacrums.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities; a thing which simulates another thing; an imitation, a semblance."
      ],
      "id": "en-simulacrum-en-noun-8tl4f2dd",
      "links": [
        [
          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ],
        [
          "form",
          "form#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "true",
          "true#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "qualities",
          "quality#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "simulate",
          "simulate"
        ],
        [
          "imitation",
          "imitation"
        ],
        [
          "semblance",
          "semblance"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "simulant"
        },
        {
          "word": "simulation"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "3 97",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities",
          "word": "simulakrumi"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsɪmjʊəˈleɪkɹəm/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsɪmjəˈleɪkɹəm/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsɪmjʊəˈleɪkɹə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsɪmjəˈleɪkɹə/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-simulacrum.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/ca/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-simulacrum.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-simulacrum.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/ca/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-simulacrum.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-simulacrum.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "simulacrum"
}

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "simulacrum",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: simulacrum",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: simulacrum"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "simulacre",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: simulacre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: simulacre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "simulacro",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: simulacro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: simulacro"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*sem-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "simulāre",
        "3": "crum",
        "alt1": "simulā(re)"
      },
      "expansion": "simulā(re) + -crum",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-culum"
      },
      "expansion": "-culum",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*-tlom"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *-tlom",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From simulā(re) + -crum (a variant of -culum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, a suffix forming instrument nouns).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "simulācrum",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "simulācrum<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "simulācrum n (genitive simulācrī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "simulācrum<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin neuter nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "75 25",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Appearance",
          "orig": "la:Appearance",
          "parents": [
            "Perception",
            "Body",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "“[The Trojans] cried out: ‘The effigy [of the horse] must be taken to the temple of the goddess, and [we] must entreat her divine favor.’”",
          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.232–233",
          "text": "Dūcendum ad sēdēs simulācrum ōrandaque dīvae / nūmina conclāmant."
        },
        {
          "english": "Others say that Orestes, when he was taking the figure of Taurian Diana from Scythia and was carried off to Sicily by a storm, he venerated her an entire year with hymns, with his sailors collected and some shepherds summoned, and that from there did the custom remain among the country-dwellers.",
          "ref": "Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii Bucolica commentarii",
          "text": "Aliī dīcunt Orestem, cum Diānae Facelītidis simulācrum raptum ex Scythiā adveheret et ad Siciliam esset tempestāte dēlātus, complētō annō Diānae fēstum celebrāsse hymnīs, collēctīs nautīs suīs et aliquibus pāstōribus convocātīs, et exinde permānsisse apud rūsticōs cōnsuētūdinem."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "image, likeness, statue, effigy, portrait"
      ],
      "id": "en-simulacrum-la-noun-W5-IJthJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "image",
          "image"
        ],
        [
          "likeness",
          "likeness"
        ],
        [
          "statue",
          "statue"
        ],
        [
          "effigy",
          "effigy"
        ],
        [
          "portrait",
          "portrait"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "effigiēs"
        },
        {
          "word": "imāgō"
        },
        {
          "word": "statua"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "21 79",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin neuter nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 68",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin terms suffixed with -crum",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "specter, ghost, phantom; mimicry, imitation"
      ],
      "id": "en-simulacrum-la-noun-3UUj6PYH",
      "links": [
        [
          "specter",
          "specter"
        ],
        [
          "ghost",
          "ghost"
        ],
        [
          "phantom",
          "phantom"
        ],
        [
          "mimicry",
          "mimicry"
        ],
        [
          "imitation",
          "imitation"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/si.muˈlaː.krum/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[s̠ɪmʊˈɫ̪äːkrʊ̃ˑ]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/si.muˈla.krum/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[simuˈläːkrum]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "simulacrum"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 4-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English learned borrowings from Latin",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English nouns with irregular plurals",
    "English terms borrowed from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *-lós",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sem-",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "la:Appearance"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pl",
            "2": "symulakrum",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Polish: symulakrum",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Polish: symulakrum"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*sem-",
        "4": "*-lós"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "simulācrum",
        "t": "image, likeness"
      },
      "expansion": "Learned borrowing from Latin simulācrum (“image, likeness”)",
      "name": "lbor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "simulāre"
      },
      "expansion": "simulāre",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-crum"
      },
      "expansion": "-crum",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-culum"
      },
      "expansion": "-culum",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*-tlom"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *-tlom",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "",
        "3": "Simulāre"
      },
      "expansion": "Simulāre",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "present"
      },
      "expansion": "present",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "active"
      },
      "expansion": "active",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "infinitive"
      },
      "expansion": "infinitive",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "simulō",
        "t": "to represent, simulate"
      },
      "expansion": "simulō (“to represent, simulate”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "similis",
        "t": "similar (to)"
      },
      "expansion": "similis (“similar (to)”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*sem-",
        "t": "one; together"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; together”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "plural"
      },
      "expansion": "plural",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "simulacra"
      },
      "expansion": "simulacra",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "simulācra",
        "nocap": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "learned borrowing from Latin simulācra",
      "name": "lbor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Latin simulācrum (“image, likeness”), from simulāre + -crum (a variant of -culum, from Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, a suffix forming instrument nouns). Simulāre is the present active infinitive of simulō (“to represent, simulate”) from similis (“similar (to)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; together”).\nThe plural form simulacra is a learned borrowing from Latin simulācra.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "simulacra",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulacrums",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "simulacra",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "simulacrum (plural simulacra or simulacrums)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "sim‧u‧la‧crum",
    "sim‧u‧la‧cra"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "icon"
    },
    {
      "word": "replica"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "a simulacrum of a New York studio apartment",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physical",
          "physical#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "image",
          "image#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "representation",
          "representation"
        ],
        [
          "deity",
          "deity"
        ],
        [
          "person",
          "person#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018, Ling Ma, chapter 1, in Severance, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 13",
          "text": "The future just wants more consumers. The future is more newly arrived college grads and tourists in some fruitless search for authenticity. The future is more overpriced Pabsts at dive-bar simulacrums.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities; a thing which simulates another thing; an imitation, a semblance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ],
        [
          "form",
          "form#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "true",
          "true#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "qualities",
          "quality#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "simulate",
          "simulate"
        ],
        [
          "imitation",
          "imitation"
        ],
        [
          "semblance",
          "semblance"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "simulant"
        },
        {
          "word": "simulation"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsɪmjʊəˈleɪkɹəm/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsɪmjəˈleɪkɹəm/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsɪmjʊəˈleɪkɹə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌsɪmjəˈleɪkɹə/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-simulacrum.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/ca/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-simulacrum.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-simulacrum.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/ca/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-simulacrum.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-simulacrum.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "simulakr",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "word": "սիմուլակր"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "obraz",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "образ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "podobie",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "подобие"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "simulacre"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "word": "kuva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "word": "malli"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "simulacre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Simulacrum"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Simulakrum"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "apeíkasma",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "απείκασμα"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "epífasi",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "επίφαση"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "simulacro"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "prívidnost",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "при́видност"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "slíka",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "сли́ка"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "prívid",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "при́вид"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "symulakrum"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "simulacro"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "simulacru"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "симулакрум"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "simulacro"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "thing which has the appearance or form of another thing, but not its true qualities",
      "word": "simulakrumi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "simulacrum"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Latin 4-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin neuter nouns",
    "Latin neuter nouns in the second declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin second declension nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sem-",
    "Latin terms suffixed with -crum",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "la:Appearance"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "simulacrum",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: simulacrum",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: simulacrum"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "simulacre",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: simulacre",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: simulacre"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "simulacro",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Spanish: simulacro",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Spanish: simulacro"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*sem-"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "simulāre",
        "3": "crum",
        "alt1": "simulā(re)"
      },
      "expansion": "simulā(re) + -crum",
      "name": "suffix"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-culum"
      },
      "expansion": "-culum",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*-tlom"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *-tlom",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From simulā(re) + -crum (a variant of -culum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, a suffix forming instrument nouns).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "simulācrum",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "simulācra",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "simulācrum<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "simulācrum n (genitive simulācrī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "simulācrum<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "“[The Trojans] cried out: ‘The effigy [of the horse] must be taken to the temple of the goddess, and [we] must entreat her divine favor.’”",
          "ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.232–233",
          "text": "Dūcendum ad sēdēs simulācrum ōrandaque dīvae / nūmina conclāmant."
        },
        {
          "english": "Others say that Orestes, when he was taking the figure of Taurian Diana from Scythia and was carried off to Sicily by a storm, he venerated her an entire year with hymns, with his sailors collected and some shepherds summoned, and that from there did the custom remain among the country-dwellers.",
          "ref": "Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii Bucolica commentarii",
          "text": "Aliī dīcunt Orestem, cum Diānae Facelītidis simulācrum raptum ex Scythiā adveheret et ad Siciliam esset tempestāte dēlātus, complētō annō Diānae fēstum celebrāsse hymnīs, collēctīs nautīs suīs et aliquibus pāstōribus convocātīs, et exinde permānsisse apud rūsticōs cōnsuētūdinem."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "image, likeness, statue, effigy, portrait"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "image",
          "image"
        ],
        [
          "likeness",
          "likeness"
        ],
        [
          "statue",
          "statue"
        ],
        [
          "effigy",
          "effigy"
        ],
        [
          "portrait",
          "portrait"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "effigiēs"
        },
        {
          "word": "imāgō"
        },
        {
          "word": "statua"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "specter, ghost, phantom; mimicry, imitation"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "specter",
          "specter"
        ],
        [
          "ghost",
          "ghost"
        ],
        [
          "phantom",
          "phantom"
        ],
        [
          "mimicry",
          "mimicry"
        ],
        [
          "imitation",
          "imitation"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/si.muˈlaː.krum/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[s̠ɪmʊˈɫ̪äːkrʊ̃ˑ]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/si.muˈla.krum/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[simuˈläːkrum]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "simulacrum"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.