Meaning of homo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a human being, man, human, person
   declension-3
2. a male human being, man
   declension-3
3. man, fellow, mate, pal, bud, partner, dude (a form of address to male peers, especially by another male)
   declension-3, term-of-address
4. used in the vocative expression "mi homo" as a form of address to a man by a woman
   declension-3, term-of-address
5. husband
   Medieval-Latin, declension-3

Equivalents

Examples

“Homō hominī lupus est (proverb).”

Man is a wolf to man.

“Hominēs, dum docent, discunt.”

People, while teaching, learn. [I.e., the teacher is also a student.]

“Homo sum — humani nihil a me alienum puto.”

I'm a human being — nothing that's human is alien to me.

“67 or 49 BC, Fragmentum Atestinum:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259638084_Fragmentum_Atestinum_Crawford qvod·ad·hominem·libervm·liberamve·pertinere·deicatvr”

What belongs to a free man?

“At quae mater! […] cuius ea stultitia est, ut eam nemo hominem appellare possit!”

And what a mother! […] whose stupidity is such that nobody would even call her human!

“[…] exceptis paucis masculini generis, quorum numero sunt ordo, ligo, et iis quae commūnis generis sunt, ut homo, nemo, bubo et mango.”

[…] except […] and those that are of common gender, such as homo, nemo, bubo and mango.

“[Agorastocles] Ita me di ament, tardo amico nihil est quicquam inaequius, praesertim homini amanti, qui quidquid agit properat omnia. Sicut ego hos duco advocatos, homines spissigradissimos,”

[Agorastocles] May gods so love me, nothing is more unfair than having a slothful friend, even more so to a man in love, who in doing anything must all expedite. So I lead them, having called them forth, the most slow-paced men of them all, slower than freight ships [corbitae] upon a quiet sea.

“Quī abortionis aut amatoris poculum dant […] si eo mulier aut homo perierit […]”

Those who poison someone with an abortion or love potion […] if it causes the death of the woman or man […]

“prō Iuppiter, tŭ homō adigi' mĕ ad īnsāniam!”

For Jupiter's sake, man, you're driving me insane!

“Mi homo et mea mulier, vos saluto.”

My man and my woman, I greet you.

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