Noun: facsimile
| Singular | facsimile |
| Plural | facsimiles; facsimilia |
Sample Sentences
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To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood? [1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld”, in James Matheson Thompson, editor, Twentieth Century Theories of Art, published 1990, § VIII, 540:]
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Indeed his rendering is so excellent an example of mediæval learning and latinity that, even at the risk of sating the learned reader with too many antiquities, I have made up my mind to give it in fac-simile, together with an expanded version for the benefit of those who find the contractions troublesome. [1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like facsimile
sedile,
simile,
miliarense,
rationale,
facsimile,
mesoeucrocodyle,
epicede,
aquamanile,
mare,
rete,
Etymology
From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).
Verbs referencing "facsimile"
Finnish Nouns
faksimile.