Where does “verisimilitude” come from?
Verisimilitude comes from Middle French vérisimilitude, from Latin verisimilitudo meaning likeness to truth, composed of verus (true) and similitudo (likeness) from similis (similar), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European roots weh₁ros and sem- meaning appearance and one.
verisimilitude (English): The property of seeming true, of resembling...
Definitions
- The property of seeming true, of resembling...
Ancestry of “verisimilitude”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | vérisimilitude | — |
| 2 | Latin | verisimilitudo | true likeness; verisimilitude |
| 3 | Latin | vērus | true, real, actual conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | wēros | true |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | weh₁ros | true |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | weh₁- | true |