simulate

English

Etymology 1

First attested in 1652; Borrowed from Latin simulātus, perfect passive participle of simulō (“make like, imitate, copy, represent, feign”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from similis (“like”). See similar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.jʊˌleɪt/

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.jəˌleɪt/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.jʊˌlæɪt/

Verb

simulate (third-person singular simple present simulates, present participle simulating, simple past and past participle simulated)

1. To model, replicate, duplicate the behavior, appearance or properties of.

   We will use a smoke machine to simulate the fog you will actually encounter.

   This video game simulates a pinball machine.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:imitate

Derived terms

• simulative
• simulatively

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sem- (0 c, 81 e)

• simulator

Translations

to model, replicate, duplicate the behavior

• Albanian: shtirem (sq)
• Bulgarian: симулирам (bg) (simuliram)
• Catalan: simular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 模拟 (zh) (mónǐ)

• Czech: simulovat (cs)
• Danish: simulere
• Esperanto: simuli
• Eton (Cameroon): bád
• Finnish: simuloida (fi)
• French: simuler (fr), ^{(please verify)} imiter (fr)
• German: simulieren (de), nachahmen (de)
• Hungarian: szimulál (hu)
• Indonesian: menirukan, menyimulasikan
• Japanese: シミュレートする (shimyurēto-suru)
• Latin: simulo, similo, simis sum, accedo (la)
• Luganda: okopa
• Malay: mensimulasikan
• Maori: whakatau
• Polish: symulować (pl)
• Portuguese: simular (pt)
• Romanian: simula (ro)
• Russian: симули́ровать (ru) (simulírovatʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: simulirati (sh)
• Spanish: simular (es)
• Swedish: simulera (sv)
• Turkish: simule etmek, benzetmek
• Ukrainian: симулюва́ти impf or pf (symuljuváty)

See also

• emulate

Etymology 2

First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English symulat(e), simulat(e), similat(e) (“feigned; similar”), borrowed from Latin simulātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.jʊ.lɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪm.jə.lət/

Adjective

simulate (comparative more simulate, superlative most simulate)

1. (obsolete) Feigned; pretended.
   • 1545, John Bale, The Image of Both Churches:

     under simulate religion

Further reading

• “simulate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “simulate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• sultiame

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

simulate

1. feminine plural of simulato

Participle

simulate f pl

1. feminine plural of simulato

Etymology 2

Verb

simulate

1. inflection of simulare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• emulasti

Latin

Verb

simulāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of simulō

References

• “simulate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Spanish

Verb

simulate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of simular combined with te