The corpus record — Latin

absimilis

absimilis · adj

unlike

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Where it lives

Otho 1 · 6.34/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
Naturalis Historia 8 · 0.2/10k
De bello Gallico 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

ab-sĭmĭlis — Lewis & Short

ab-sĭmĭlis, e, adj.ab, priv.,

I unlike, usually with a neg. and dat.

(a) Absol.: falces non absimili formā muralium falcium, Caes. B. G. 3, 14, 5.—

(b) With dat.: (herba) neque absimilis bitumini, Col. 6, 17, 2; so Plin. 8, 33, 51, § 121; Suet. Oth. 1; id. Dom. 10 al.

In the wild

absimile Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 27.4
absimilis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 4.29.8
absimilis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 6.17.2
absimile Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.34.p1
absimilem Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.7.p2
absimili Julius Caesar, De bello Gallico 3.14.5

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.