Semblance

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Middle English: from Old French, from sembler ‘seem’, from Latin similare, simulare ‘simulate’.

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From Middle English semblaunce, from Old French semblance [1], from semblant, present participle of sembler.

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semblance (n.)

c. 1300, "fact of appearing to view," from Old French semblance, from semblant "likeness, appearance," present participle of sembler "to seem, appear," from Latin simulare "to resemble, imitate," from similis "like, resembling, of the same kind" (see similar). Meaning "person's appearance or demeanor" is attested from c. 1400; that of "false, assumed or deceiving appearance" is from 1590s. Meaning "person or thing that resembles another" is attested from 1510s.