What is the Latin word for likeness?

The usual Latin words for “likeness” are similitūdō, conveniō, congruō; also analogia, imāgō, effigiēs. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“likeness” in Latin

similitūdōLikeness, resemblance, similarity; imitation.; A comparison, simile, similitude; analogy; parable.; Sameness, uniformity conveniōto convene, assemble, gather, meet or come together; to accost, to call on; to sue, to let be summoned to court congruōto come, unite, combine, run or meet together with someone; to coincide or correspond with someone or something; agree w analogiaanalogy, similarity; ratio, proportion imāgōimage, imitation, likeness, statue, representation; ancestral image; ghost, apparition effigiēscopy, imitation; likeness, portrait, image, effigy, statue simulācrumimage, likeness, statue, effigy, portrait; specter, ghost, phantom; mimicry, imitation ideaidea; prototype (Platonic)

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

likeness

Resemblance, similitudo: convenientia, congruentia (so far as the likeness depends on a due proportion of parts, Plin., Ep., 2, 5, 11): analogia (likeness of words and ideas, translated in Cic., De Univ., 4, by proportio; ☞ Quint., 1, 6, 3): congruentia morum (agreement in manners, in character; Suet., Oth., 2). Likeness in name, nominis vicinitas (Plin., 21, 18, 69): to bear a likeness to anybody or anything, similitudinem habere cum aliquo (aliqua re); similitudo mihi est cum aliquo: they bear a mutual likeness, est similitudo inter aliquos.

Image, that which resembles, imago, effigies, simulacrum [SYN. in IMAGE, PROP.]; vera imago or effigies (a true likeness). My likeness, mei similis species: to take a likeness of anybody, effingere oris lineamenta: to take a striking likeness, veram alicujus imaginem reddere: she called him the exact likeness of his father, veram paterni oris effigiem appellabat: the daughter was, in character and appearance, the exact likeness of her father, filia non minus mores ejus, quam os vultumque referebat, totumque patrem mira similitudine exscripserat.

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What is the Latin word for likeness?: The usual Latin words for “likeness” are similitūdō, conveniō, congruō; also analogia, imāgō, effigiēs. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.