different between simulacrum vs conflation

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.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin conflatio, conflationem, from Latin conflatus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?fle???n/

  Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

conflation (countable and uncountable, plural conflations)

1. (countable) A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
2. (uncountable) A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material of two or more texts into a single text.

Related terms

• conflate

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