simulacrum
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin simulācrum (“image, likeness”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
simulacrum (plural simulacrums or simulacra)
- An image or representation.
- a simulacrum of a New York studio apartment
- 2008 October 23, Manohla Dargis, “Dreamer, Live in the Here and Now”, in New York Times[1]:
- Like the full-scale map in Borges’s short story “On Exactitude in Science,” the representation takes on the dimensions of reality to the point of replacing it. The French theorist Jean Baudrillard uses Borges’s story as a metaphor for his notion of the simulacrum, which probably explains why Caden, who has trouble naming things, considers titling his production “Simulacrum.”
- 2018 September 18, Amanda Kolson Hurley, “Fake Public Squares Are Coming to the Suburbs”, in The Atlantic[2]:
- We shouldn’t have to dodge traffic on an eight-lane road just to get to a simulacrum of an inclusive urban place. The problem is not too much Disneyland thinking—it’s not enough.
- A faint trace or semblance.
- a simulacrum of hope
Translations[edit]
image or representation
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faint trace
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Further reading[edit]
simulacrum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /si.muˈlaː.krum/, [s̠ɪmʊˈɫ̪äːkrʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /si.muˈla.krum/, [simuˈläːkrum]
Noun[edit]
simulācrum n (genitive simulācrī); second declension
- an image, likeness
- Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii Bucolica commentarii :
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | simulācrum | simulācra |
Genitive | simulācrī | simulācrōrum |
Dative | simulācrō | simulācrīs |
Accusative | simulācrum | simulācra |
Ablative | simulācrō | simulācrīs |
Vocative | simulācrum | simulācra |
Descendants[edit]
- → English: simulacrum
- → French: simulacre
- → Spanish: simulacro
References[edit]
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- simulacrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to make a marble statue: simulacrum e marmore facere
- to make a marble statue: simulacrum e marmore facere
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