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et sim.

et sim. phrase: and other similar items; and the like; and so on.

Phrase

et sim.

  1. And other similar items; and the like; and so on.
    • pleonasm (mare pelago premit arua et sim.)1936, A. S. F. Gow, A. E. Housman: A Sketch, Together with a List of His Writings and Indexes to His Classical Papers, The Macmillan Company, page 136
    • ἄλλος αὖ an intensifying pleonasm, not unlike αὖθις αὖ et sim. or ordinals with αὖ (e.g., Su. 881, fr. 382.8);[…]1994, Donald J. Mastronarde, Euripides: Phoenissae, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 266

Origin of et sim.

From Latin et similia.

Questions about et sim.

What does et sim. mean?
Et sim. means and other similar items; and the like; and so on.
What part of speech is et sim.?
Et sim. is a phrase.

Words near et sim. in the dictionary

  1. et id genus omne
  2. et pass.
  3. et passim
  4. et seq.
  5. et seqq.
  6. et sim.
  7. et tu
  8. et tu, Brute
  9. et ux
  10. et ux.
  11. et uxor

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