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Abbreviation of simultaneous.

simul (plural simuls)

  1. (gaming) An exhibition in which one (typically much stronger) player plays several games at the same time against different opponents.

    • 1969, Anthony Glyn, The Dragon Variation, page 96:

      We're not just starting with Round 1. We're kicking off with a simul. Four simuls to be exact.

    • 1985, Daryl Lane, William Vernon, David Carson, The Sound of Wonder, page 80:

      He could have organized a simul with a rat without blinking an eye.

    • 2003, J.C. Hallman, The Chess Artist, page 275:

      I saw Glenn wrapping up his speech, and told Baynes to come back that evening for the simul.

sima (“smooth”) +‎ -ul (verb-forming suffix)

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃimul]
  • Hyphenation: si‧mul
  • Rhymes: -ul

simul

  1. (intransitive, of a surface, material) to become smooth
  2. (intransitive, of clothing, hair, skin) to fit something tight
  3. (intransitive) to snuggle up, cuddle up, to cling (to someone: -hoz/-hez/-höz)
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) to conform, accommodate, adapt to, fit in somewhere

(With verbal prefixes):

  • simul in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Old Latin neuter of similis (with u before l pinguis, i.e. [ɫ]).

simul (not comparable)

  1. At the same time; simultaneously
  2. simul … simul: and at the same time; and also; both … and (at once); together; not only ... but at the same time

    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.513–514:

      Obstipuit simul ipse simul perculsus Achātēs
      laetitiāque metūque
      Not only [Aeneas] himself was astounded, but at the same time Achates had been struck with both joy and fear.
      (or, more concisely:)
      [Aeneas] and Achates both were astonished, stricken with joy and fear.
  3. together

    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.403–404:

      natā simul, moritūra simul, simul īte sub undās corpora!
      Born together, about to die together, together [your] bodies go beneath the waves!
      (Twin babes Romulus and Remus are abandoned along the banks of the Tiber.)
  4. As soon as.
type demonstrative anaphoric identity interrogative/
relative		 indefinite negative other
proximal medial distal relative indefinite free choice universal negative polarity
basic hic iste, istic ille, illic is ipse, īdem quis/quī quisquis, quīcumque quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quispiam quīvis, quīlibet quisque quisquam, ūllus, °aliquisquam nēmō, nihil, nūllus alius
dual uter utercumque alteruter utervīs, uterlibet uterque neuter alter
place hīc istīc illīc ibī̆ ibī̆dem ubī̆ ubiubi, ubī̆cumque alicubī, uspiam ubivīs, ubilibet ubīque usquam nusquam, nūllibī alibī, aliās
source hinc istinc illinc inde indidem unde undecumque, undeunde alicunde °undelibet undique aliunde
destination hūc, °hōrsum istūc, °istōrsum illūc, °illōrsum eō eōdem quō, quōrsum quōquō, quōcumque aliquō, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum quōvīs, quōlibet quōquam nusquam, nūllōrsum aliō, aliōrsum
method,
means,
path,
place 		hāc istāc illāc eā eādem quā quāquā, quācumque aliquā quāvīs, quālibet quāque nēquāquam, haudquāquam aliā
manner hōc modō istō modō illō modō ita, sīc,
eō modō		 item, itidem ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō quōmodolibet utique ūllō modō nūllō modō aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō
time num, nunc ōlim tum, tunc simul quandō, ‡cum cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque quondam, aliquandō quandōlibet quandōque umquam numquam aliās
quantity tam †tamen, †tandem quam †quamquam aliquam quamvīs, quamlibet
size tantus tantusdem quantus quantuscumque aliquantus quantusvīs, quantuslibet
quality tālis quālis quālis, quāliscumque aliquālis quālislibet
number tot totidem quot quotquot, quotcumque aliquot quotlibet
order totus quotus quotuscumque aliquotus quotuslibet
repetition totiēns quotiēns quotiēnscumque aliquotiēns quotiēnslibet
multiplication totuplex quotuplex
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated
° Rare
‡only used as a conjunction, not as an interrogative

Descendants

  • “simul”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • simul in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • simul in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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simul f (genitive simlar)

  1. (poetic) a hag, witch
  • “simul”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press