Meaning of instar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. image, likeness, resemblance
   indeclinable, no-genitive
2. counterpart
   indeclinable, no-genitive
3. worth, value
   indeclinable, no-genitive
4. an equal form (of)
   indeclinable, no-genitive
5. of equal weight/size/form (to)
   indeclinable, no-genitive

Examples

“1539 CE, Olaus Magnus, Carta Marina, marginal note. Quia, optime lector, Scandiana insula apud Plinium alter orbis terrarum, et a Iordane Gotho ac Paulo Diacono vagina sive officina gentium appellatur, plurimique populi (ut omnis scriptorum turba testatur) ex ea instar apum vel inundantium aquarum exiere, utile putavi nomina aliquarum gentium inde egressarum subiecta pagina indicare.”

Since, dear reader, the isle of Scandinavia is called another world in Pliny's works, and since it is called by Jordanes the Goth and Paul the Deacon a womb or manufacturing-room of ethnic groups, and since numerous peoples (as any group of scholars can attest) descended from there like a swarm of bees or floodwaters, I thought it useful to indicate, on the page below, the names of various ethnic groups that originated there.

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