verisimilis
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Univerbation of vērī + similis, literally “resembling, close to the truth”.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [weː.riːˈsɪ.mɪ.lɪs], [weː.rɪˈsɪ.mɪ.lɪs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ve.riˈs̬iː.mi.lis]
Adjective
vērī̆similis (neuter vērī̆simile, comparative vērī̆similior, superlative vērī̆simillimus, adverb vērī̆similiter); third-declension two-termination adjective
- apparently true
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masc./fem. | neuter | masc./fem. | neuter | ||
| nominative | vērī̆similis | vērī̆simile | vērī̆similēs | vērī̆similia | |
| genitive | vērī̆similis | vērī̆similium | |||
| dative | vērī̆similī | vērī̆similibus | |||
| accusative | vērī̆similem | vērī̆simile | vērī̆similīs vērī̆similēs |
vērī̆similia | |
| ablative | vērī̆similī | vērī̆similibus | |||
| vocative | vērī̆similis | vērī̆simile | vērī̆similēs | vērī̆similia | |
Descendants
- → English: verisimilar
References
- “verisimilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “verisimilis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "verisimilis", 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)
- “verisimilis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- verisimilis, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011