et sim.
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.74 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "pleonasm (mare pelago premit arua et sim.)"
- "ἄλλος αὖ an intensifying pleonasm, not unlike αὖθις αὖ et sim. or ordinals with αὖ (e.g., Su. 881, fr. 382.8);[…]"
- "Not many examples are cited by TLL X.1.284.38ff, and these are mainly in learned authors; one must distinguish pariter + misceo et sim. where pariter has the sense under discussion here, and those cases where it means ‘in equal amounts’: TLL X.1.281.41ff."
- "One may recall here similar expressions from modern Greece, where, for example, many unsophisticated families used to place the kings’ or leading (and favored) politicians’ portraits right under an icon of Christ et sim., or where wishes for the wellbeing of such persons were incorporated into the evening prayers of small children or, as for kings, officially included, as the so-called polychronion, into the liturgy."
- "Perhaps without special reference, as in 2.217f. pater . . . Inachus et sim."
- "Once identified as a member of a coordinating paradigm, a zero connector serves as a heuristic means of establishing the syntactic status of other particles: iam in an apodosis clause is not its connector, but the temporal adverb or asseverative particle in a clause which may be introduced either by et et sim. or by zero (see Section 1.3.6.1)."
Etymology
From Latin et similia.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Phrases
vel sim.
Frequently Paired Words
vel sim.