Etymology

verisimilitude

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Today it means: The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality. Full definition →

Middle French vérisimilitude ← Latin vērīsimilitūdō
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  1. Latin · derived fromvērīsimilitūdō“likeness to truth”
  2. Middle French · derived fromvérisimilitude
  3. English todayverisimilitude

From Middle French vérisimilitude, from Latin vērīsimilitūdō (“likeness to truth”), more correctly written separately as vērī similitūdō; from vērī, genitive singular of vērus (“true, real”), + similitūdō (“likeness, resemblance”).

Words from the same roots

Latinvērīsimilitūdō all →

verisimilitudinous

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