simulacrum

noun /ˌsɪmjʊˈleɪkɹəm/

1. A physical image or representation of a deity, person, or thing.

   a simulacrum of a New York studio apartment

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Latin simulācrum (“image, likeness”), from simul(ā) + -crum (a variant of -culum, from Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, a suffix forming instrument nouns), from similis (“similar (to)”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one; together”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry simulacrum (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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