Other forms: facsimiles
A facsimile is an exact copy of a document or an image. A facsimile edition, a perfect facsimile, produce a facsimile.
A facsimile edition reproduces the original page for page, including the flaws, which is why scholars use them where the original is too fragile to handle. The word was shortened to fax, which is where that machine got its name.
1nounfacsimileAn exact copy of a document or an image.
“The museum sells a facsimile of the original map, printed on thick cream paper.”
facsimile is a copy.
The Latin parts are to make and similar. A facsimile is made to be exactly similar to the thing it copies.
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Latin fac simile means make like — fac, the imperative of facere, plus simile, similar.
Latin
fac simile
English, today
facsimile
Built from
From Latin fac simile, from facio. From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA