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ersatz

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ersatz (replacement); and from the German ersetzen (to replace, verb).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???zæts/, IPA(key): /???sæts/
  • (US) IPA(key): /????s?ts/, IPA(key): /????z?ts/, IPA(key): /????s??ts/, IPA(key): /????z??ts/, IPA(key): /??sæts/
  • (US) IPA(key): [????s??ts]
  • Hyphenation: er?satz

Adjective

ersatz (comparative more ersatz, superlative most ersatz)

  1. made in imitation; artificial, especially of a poor quality
    • 1923, Arthur Michael Samuel, The Mancroft Essays, Pinchbeck, page 164 (possibly published before in The Saturday Review in 1917–1921):
      In these days of “rolled” gold, electro-plate, and undetectable pearls, it is curious that almost the only honest Ersatz material known to the goldsmith's art should be utterly forgotten.
    • 1929, "Zeppelining," Time, 16 Sep.,
      Ersatzgas, Ersatzpfennige. Ersatz has become a brave word in Germany. As a substantive it means War Reparations. As part of compounded words it means substitute.
    • 2001, The New Yorker, 15 Oct,
      The avant-garde's opposite number, in Greenberg's scheme, is kitsch, "ersatz culture"—art for capitalism's new man (who turns out to be no different from Fascism's or Communism's new man).
    • 2003, The New Yorker, 17 & 24 Feb,
      The NATO visitors watched an ersatz eighteenth-century dance (complete with powdered wigs and simulated copulation) that might have been considered obscene had it not been so amusing.
    • 2004, The New Yorker, 31 May,
      The crowd wandered out to a huge party on the ersatz city blocks of the Paramount lot.
    Synonyms: artificial, faux, imitation, knock off, (obsolete) gingerbread

Noun

ersatz (plural ersatzes)

  1. something made in imitation; an effigy or substitute
    (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
    Synonyms: imitation, knock off

Translations

See also

  • ansatz (mathematics, physics)

Anagrams

  • Artzes

French

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ersatz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??.zats/

Noun

ersatz m (plural ersatz)

  1. ersatz

Further reading

  • “ersatz” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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simulacrum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin simul?crum (image, likeness).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?simj??le?k??m/

Noun

simulacrum (plural simulacrums or simulacra)

  1. An image or representation.
  2. A faint trace or semblance.

Translations

Further reading

  • simulacrum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From simul? +? -crum.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /si.mu?la?.krum/, [s??m????ä?k????]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /si.mu?la.krum/, [simu?l??k?um]

Noun

simul?crum n (genitive simul?cr?); second declension

  1. an image, likeness
    Synonyms: effigies, im?g?, statua

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

  • ? English: simulacrum
  • ? French: simulacre
  • ? Spanish: simulacro

References

  • simulacrum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • simulacrum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • simulacrum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • simulacrum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

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