From Latin simile ( “ comparison, likeness, parallel ” ) (first attested 1393), originally from simile , neuter form of similis ( “ like, similar, resembling ” ) . Compare English similar .
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Lewis’s Elementary Latin Dictionary
1890 American Book Company edition; pinned Perseus XML digitizationsimile
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From Latin similis .
Unadapted borrowing from Italian simile .
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 8
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What is the earliest secure English humiliation witness?
Merriam-Webster publishes the Middle English form humiliacioun, and Harvard’s Chaucer corpus indexes one occurrence. This review did not inspect an underlying manuscript, prove an exact composition year, or establish that no earlier English occurrence survives.
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What is the earliest secure English humility witness?
Merriam-Webster reports the fourteenth century broadly. The Middle English Dictionary supplies a circa-1390 Chaucer citation with humylitee, but this review did not inspect its underlying manuscript witness, and the located citation does not prove that no earlier English occurrence survives.
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Were the underlying manuscript objects directly inspected?
No. This review inspected dictionaries, concordance metadata, and normalized text surfaces, not the manuscripts behind the three poems.
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Was the ÁKr fiandanom variant directly read from GKS 3270 4°?
No. ONP’s citation record and linked image index were inspected, but the exact manuscript token was not located and verified on the folio image.
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Were the underlying manuscript objects directly inspected?
No. This review inspected the official dictionary article, not the manuscripts behind its gloss and rule-text references.
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Were the Behaim examples directly inspected in a manuscript?
No. They are located reports in DWB. Browser permissions blocked the available digitized editions during this review, so neither a manuscript nor printed edition object is promoted as directly inspected.
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Is the c.1150-1200 Hatr token the first known use?
Not established. The inspected object proves a token in that codex; neither ONP nor the facsimile inspection licenses a global earliest-surviving-use claim.
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Are the 901–1000 Wachtendonck Psalms forms directly inspected tenth-century manuscript tokens?
No. ONW labels the records with much later copy dates, including 1595–1605 and circa 1598. This review inspected the lexical corpus record, not an original tenth-century object.
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Codex Argenteus facsimile 145 — folio 123r, Luke 1:69–77
Uppsala University Library · Project Codex Argenteus Online / 1927
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗digitized primary source7 CLAIM LINKS
Codex Argenteus facsimile 186 — folio 143v, Luke 6:25–30
Uppsala University Library · Project Codex Argenteus Online / 1927
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗digitized primary source7 CLAIM LINKS
Codex Argenteus facsimile 6 — folio 3v, Matthew 5:42–47
Uppsala University Library · Project Codex Argenteus Online / 1927
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Codex Argenteus facsimile 60 — folio 94v, John 7:22–28
Uppsala University Library · Project Codex Argenteus Online / 1927
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Codex Argenteus facsimile 57 — folio 33r, John 7:2–8
Uppsala University Library · Project Codex Argenteus Online / 1927
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗digitized primary source4 CLAIM LINKS
Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, folio 152r — Electronic Beowulf facsimile
British Library · Kevin Kiernan, editor / 2026
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗digitized primary source3 CLAIM LINKS
Codex Argenteus facsimile 228 — folio 164v, Luke 10:17–21
Uppsala University Library · Project Codex Argenteus Online / 1927
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Codex Argenteus facsimile 31 — folio 27r, Matthew 10:34–40
Uppsala University Library · Project Codex Argenteus Online / 1927
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Codex Argenteus facsimile 96 — folio 76v, John 12:19–25
Uppsala University Library · Project Codex Argenteus Online / 1927
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗digitized primary source3 CLAIM LINKS
Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, folio 180v — Electronic Beowulf facsimile
British Library · Kevin Kiernan, editor / 2026
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Codex Argenteus facsimile 157 — folio 129r, Luke 3:5–9
Uppsala University Library · Project Codex Argenteus Online / 1927
source titleAUDIT EVERY USE ↗digitized primary source1 CLAIM LINKS
Codex Argenteus facsimile 276 — folio 57v, Mark 1:6–13
Uppsala University Library; Project Codex Argenteus Online / 1927
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ATTESTATION WITNESSES
DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript
Codex Argenteus, Mark 1:11
liufs / liufs / early 6th century
Codex Argenteus facsimile 276 — folio 57v, Mark 1:6–13reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript
Codex Argenteus, Matthew 5:44
hatjan / hatjan / early 6th century
Codex Argenteus facsimile 6 — folio 3v, Matthew 5:42–47reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript
Codex Argenteus, Luke 3:7
hatis / hatis / early 6th century
Codex Argenteus facsimile 157 — folio 129r, Luke 3:5–9reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript
Codex Argenteus, Luke 1:71
hatan / hatan / early 6th century
Codex Argenteus facsimile 145 — folio 123r, Luke 1:69–77reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript
Codex Argenteus, Luke 6:27
hatan / hatan / early 6th century
Codex Argenteus facsimile 186 — folio 143v, Luke 6:25–30reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript
Codex Argenteus, John 7:7
fijan / fijan / early 6th century
Codex Argenteus facsimile 57 — folio 33r, John 7:2–8reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript
Codex Argenteus, John 12:25
fijan / fijan / early 6th century
Codex Argenteus facsimile 96 — folio 76v, John 12:19–25reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript
Codex Argenteus, Luke 1:71
fijan / fijan / early 6th century
Codex Argenteus facsimile 145 — folio 123r, Luke 1:69–77reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript
Codex Argenteus, Luke 6:27
fijan / fijan / early 6th century
Codex Argenteus facsimile 186 — folio 143v, Luke 6:25–30reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript
Codex Argenteus, Matthew 5:43
fijands / fijands / early 6th century
Codex Argenteus facsimile 6 — folio 3v, Matthew 5:42–47reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript
Codex Argenteus, Matthew 5:44
fijands / fijands / early 6th century
Codex Argenteus facsimile 6 — folio 3v, Matthew 5:42–47reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗DIRECTLY INSPECTEDmanuscript
Codex Argenteus, Matthew 10:36
fijands / fijands / early 6th century
Codex Argenteus facsimile 31 — folio 27r, Matthew 10:34–40reporting source / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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