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resemblance (s) (noun), resemblances (pl)
The extent to which someone, or something, looks like another person or something else.
This entry is located in the following units: -ance, -ancy (page 12) simal-, simil-, simul-, -semble (page 3)
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(from Proto-Germanic -iskaz, Vulgar Latin -iscus, Italian -esco, and then French -esque: a suffix forming adjuectives and indicating "resemblance, style, manner, or distinctive character, etc., of")
(Latin: something that is inferior, small, or shallow; expressing incomplete resemblance)
(Greek balaustion > Latin balaustium: supporting post of a railing on a balcony, staircase, etc. Borrowed from Italian balaustro, from balaustra; so called because of the resemblance of a baluster to the double-curving calyx tube of the "wild pomegranate flower".)
(Latin: insect in its grub stage; from Latin larva, "mask" and by extension, "ghost", the idea being that an insect in its grub stage is merely a ghost of its future self and bears no resemblance to its future form)