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): [ˈsɪ.mɪ.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.mi.lis]

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

1. similar to, like, resembling, of the same kind, the same as [with (mostly Republican) genitive or (almost always in Post-Augustean writers) dative ]

   Synonym: aequālis

   Antonyms: dissimilis, absimilis, inaequālis

   • 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 411:

     Est similis mâiōrum suom.

     He's like his own ancestors.
     (Example with the genitive mâiōrum.)

   • 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, [Mercury] hurled himself headlong toward the waves, like a seabird, which rounds the shorelines, [and] 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^[1], 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, volume 11: S–Si, page 628