similis

similis

1. past of simili

From Proto-Italic *semalis, from Proto-Indo-European *sem-h₂-lo-, from *sem- (“together, one”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ὁμαλός (homalós, “even, level”), Welsh hafal (“equal”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.mi.lis/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.mi.lis/,

similis (neuter simile, comparative similior, superlative simillimus, adverb similiter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. similar

   Synonym: aequālis

   Antonyms: dissimilis, absimilis, inaequālis

2. (takes a dative object) similar to, like, resembling, of the same kind, the same as
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.253–255:

     hinc tōtō praeceps sē corpore ad undās
     mīsit, avī similis, quae circum lītora, circum
     piscōsōs scopulōs humilīs volat aequora iuxtā.

     then, with his whole body, hurled himself headlong toward the waves, like a seabird, which rounds the shorelines, around the fish-filled crags it flies low near the water.

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• “similis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “similis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• similis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be probable: veri simile esse
    
  • to employ a comparison, simile: simili uti
    
  • to use the same simile, illustration: ut in eodem simili verser
    
• “similis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sĭmĭlis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 11: S–Si, page 628