simul

Abbreviation of simultaneous.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪməl/

simul (plural simuls)

1. (gaming) An exhibition in which one (typically much stronger) player plays several games at the same time against different opponents.
   • 1969, Anthony Glyn, The Dragon Variation, page 96:

     We're not just starting with Round 1. We're kicking off with a simul. Four simuls to be exact.

   • 1985, Daryl Lane, William Vernon, David Carson, The Sound of Wonder, page 80:

     He could have organized a simul with a rat without blinking an eye.

   • 2003, J.C. Hallman, The Chess Artist, page 275:

     I saw Glenn wrapping up his speech, and told Baynes to come back that evening for the simul.

• limus, mulis

sima (“smooth”) +‎ -ul (verb-forming suffix)

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: si‧mul
• Rhymes: -ul

simul

1. (intransitive, of a surface, material) to become smooth
2. (intransitive, of clothing, hair, skin) to fit something tight
3. (intransitive) to snuggle up, cuddle up, to cling (to someone: -hoz/-hez/-höz)
4. (intransitive, figuratively) to conform, accommodate, adapt to, fit in somewhere

(With verbal prefixes):

• simul in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From Old Latin neuter of similis (with u before l pinguis, i.e. ).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
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simul (not comparable)

1. at the same time; simultaneously
2. (as simul … simul) and at the same time; and also; both … and (at once); together; not only ... but at the same time
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.513–514:

     Obstipuit simul ipse simul perculsus Achātēs
     laetitiāque metūque

     Not only himself was astounded, but at the same time Achates had been struck with both joy and fear.
     (or, more concisely:)
     and Achates both were astonished, stricken with joy and fear.

3. together
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.403–404:

     natā simul, moritūra simul, simul īte sub undās corpora!

     Born together, about to die together, together bodies go beneath the waves!
     (Twin babes Romulus and Remus are abandoned along the banks of the Tiber.)

4. as soon as

• simultās
• simultāneus (Medieval Latin)

• “simul”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• simul in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• simul in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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simul f (genitive simlar)

1. (poetic) a hag, witch

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “simul”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive