similitudo

From similis (“like, resembling, similar”) + -tūdō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɪ.mɪ.lɪˈtuː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [si.mi.liˈtuː.do]

similitūdō f (genitive similitūdinis); third declension

1. Likeness, resemblance, similarity; imitation.
2. A comparison, simile, similitude; analogy; parable.
3. Sameness, uniformity, monotony.

Third-declension noun.

• (comparison): aequiparantia, collātiō, comparātiō, parabola
• (likeness, similitude): assimulātiō, instar, simulācrum

• (antonym(s) of “likeness, resemblance”): dissimilitūdō

• vērīsimilitūdō

• Old Galician-Portuguese: semelduẽ
• → English: similitude
• → French: similitude
• → Italian: similitudine
• → Romanian: similitudine
• → Spanish: similitud

• “similitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “similitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "similitudo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “similitudo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to cite parallel cases: similitudines afferre