LIKENESS Copy link • LIKENESSResemblance, similitudo: convenientia, congruentia (so far as the likeness depends on a due proportion of parts, Plin., Ep., 2, 5, 11): analogia (likeness of words and ideas, translated in Cic., De Univ., 4, by proportio; ☞ Quint., 1, 6, 3): congruentia morum (agreement in manners, in character; Suet., Oth., 2). Likeness in name, nominis vicinitas (Plin., 21, 18, 69): to bear a likeness to anybody or anything, similitudinem habere cum aliquo (aliqua re); similitudo mihi est cum aliquo: they bear a mutual likeness, est similitudo inter aliquos. Image, that which resembles, imago, effigies, simulacrum [SYN. in IMAGE, PROP.]; vera imago or effigies (a true likeness). My likeness, mei similis species: to take a likeness of anybody, effingere oris lineamenta: to take a striking likeness, veram alicujus imaginem reddere: she called him the exact likeness of his father, veram paterni oris effigiem appellabat: the daughter was, in character and appearance, the exact likeness of her father, filia non minus mores ejus, quam os vultumque referebat, totumque patrem mira similitudine exscripserat.