English
simulative
From simulate + -ive.
Formed from simulate + -ive
Proto-Indo-European *sem- ‘together, one’
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Proto-Italic *semalis ‘similiar’
Latin similis ‘like’
Latin simulō ‘make like, imitate, copy, represent, feign’
Latin simulātus ‘imitated, feigned, pretended, behaved or…’
English simulate
Today it means
adj That simulates.
Sources
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