dissimulatus

Dissimulatus is a Latin adjective and the perfect passive participle of the verb dissimulare, meaning to feign, pretend, or conceal one’s true feelings or intentions. In classical texts, dissilimulatus is used to describe emotions, motives, or actions that are not genuine, often in discussions of rhetoric, politics, or personal behavior. The term is typically inflected for gender and number, with dissilumulatus (masculine), dissimulata (feminine), and dissimulatum (neuter) appearing in appropriate contexts.

Etymology and form follow standard Latin patterns. The root dissimulare combines a prefix sense of concealment with a verb meaning to simulate or imitate, yielding a sense of disguising or hiding one’s real state. The participle dissilimulatus therefore conveys completion of the act of feigning or concealment.

Usage and reception. Dissimulatus appears mainly in Latin passages and scholarly apparatuses that quote or annotate classical authors. In English-language scholarship, it is typically rendered as “feigned,” “dissembled,” or “concealed.” The term is not a common or broad category in modern vocabulary outside discussions of Latin literature; it is primarily of interest to philologists, historians, and textual critics studying specific passages.

See also. Dissimulation, dissimulation, feigning, pretend, Latin grammar and participles.