different between pastiche vs simulacrum

English

Etymology

Via French pastiche, from Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pasticium, from Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pastá, “barley porridge”), from ?????? (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæs?ti??/
• Rhymes: -i??

Noun

pastiche (countable and uncountable, plural pastiches)

1. A work of art, drama, literature, music, or architecture that imitates the work of a previous artist.
2. A musical medley, typically quoting other works.
3. An incongruous mixture; a hodgepodge.

   This supposed research paper is a pastiche of passages from unrelated sources.

   The house failed to attract a buyer because the decor was a pastiche of Bohemian and Scandinavian styles.

4. (uncountable) A postmodern playwriting technique that fuses a variety of styles, genres, and story lines to create a new form.

Translations

See also

• cento
• collage

Verb

pastiche (third-person singular simple present pastiches, present participle pastiching, simple past and past participle pastiched)

1. To create or compose in a mixture of styles.

Anagrams

• capeshit, hepatics, pistache, scaphite

French

Etymology

From Italian pasticcio (“pie, something blended”), from Vulgar Latin *pasticium, from Latin pasta (“dough, pastry cake, paste”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pastá, “barley porridge”), from ?????? (pastós, “sprinkled with salt”). Doublet of pastis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pas.ti?/
• Homophones: pastichent, pastiches

Noun

pastiche m (plural pastiches)

1. pastiche

Verb

pastiche

1. inflection of pasticher:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• pasticho

Noun

pastiche m (plural pastiches)

1. pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist)

Spanish

Noun

pastiche m (plural pastiches)

1. pastiche (work that imitates the work of a previous artist)

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.