facsimile

See also: facsimilé, fac-simile, and fac-similé

English

Etymology

From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fækˈsɪm.ə.li/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

facsimile (plural facsimiles or facsimilia)

1. (countable) A copy or reproduction.
   • 1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld” in Twentieth Century Theories of Art (1990), ed. James Matheson Thompson, § VIII, 540:

     To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:facsimile.
2. (uncountable) Reproduction in the exact form as the original.
   • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure‎^[1]:

     Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome.

3. A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
4. The image sent by the machine itself.

Synonyms

• (copy): autotype, copy, reproduction
• (machine): facsimile machine, fax, fax machine
• (copy made by a facsimile): facsimile reproduction, fax

Descendants

• → Japanese: ファクシミリ

Translations

copy or reproduction

• Asturian: facsímil m
• Catalan: facsímil (ca) m
• Esperanto: faksimilo
• Estonian: faksiimile
• Finnish: jäljennös (fi), faksimile
• Galician: facsímile m
• German: Faksimile (de) n, Reproduktion (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: fakszimile sg
• Ido: faksimilo (io)
• Latvian: faksimils
• Portuguese: fac-símile (pt) m
• Russian: факси́миле (ru) n (faksímile), ко́пия (ru) f (kópija)
• Spanish: facsímil (es) m
• Swedish: faksimil (sv)
• Welsh: cyfargraff f

fax machine

• Finnish: faksi (fi)
• Ido: faxilo (io)
• Japanese: ファックス (fakkusu), ファクシミリ (fakusimiri)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: fax (pt) m
• Russian: факс (ru) m (faks)

image

• Finnish: faksi (fi)
• Japanese: ファクシミリ (fakushimiri)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 팩시밀리 (ko) (paeksimilli)
• Russian: факси́миле (ru) n (faksímile), факс (ru) m (faks)

Verb

facsimile (third-person singular simple present facsimiles, present participle facsimileing or facsimiling, simple past and past participle facsimiled or facsimilied)

1. (transitive) To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
2. (transitive) To make a copy of; to reproduce.

Synonyms

• fax, telefax

Translations

fax — see fax