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Definition: Homo |
HomoNoun1. Someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex. 2. Any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "homo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Homo can refer to multiple things:
- a genus containing modern humans, Homo sapiens sapiens, archaic Homo sapiens, and Neanderthals (see also hominid)
- a derogatory term for homosexuals
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Homo."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
HOMO | English | Highest Occupied Molecule Orbital | Physics |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: HomoSynonyms: gay (n), homosexual (n), human (n), human being (n), man (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Upstart, parvenu, skipjack; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti; bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw. |
Extraneousness | Noun: extraneousness; Adjective: extrinsicality; exteriority; alienage, alienism. foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant; creole, Africander; outsider; Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot. |
Malevolence | Phrase: cruel as death; " hard unkindness' alter'd eye "; homo homini lupus; mala mens, malus animus.; "rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind"; "sharp-tooth'd unkindness ". |
Man | Phrase: hominem pagina nostra sapit; homo homini aut deus aut lupus; homo vitae commodatus non donatus est. |
Scholar | Learned man, literary man; homo multarum literarum; man of learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius. |
Thief | Noun: thief, robber, homo triumliterarum, pilferer, rifler, filcher, plagiarist. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Homo |
| English words defined with "homo": Boskop man ♦ genus Javanthropus, genus Pithecanthropus ♦ hominian, hominid, homo erectus, Homo sapiens sapiens ♦ Javanthropus ♦ language ♦ modern man ♦ Pithecanthropus, Pithecanthropus erectus ♦ speech. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "homo": April Squire ♦ Barcochebah ♦ Man of Three Letters ♦ Newgate ♦ rattlesnake ♦ Seian Horse ♦ Worship. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "homo": homunculus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Homo" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (gay, homosexual), Esperanto (human being, man), French (gay, homo), German (fag, faggot, fairy, homo, queen, queer), Latin (fellow, Homo Sapiens, human being, man, person), Romanian (fag, queer), Turkish (homo). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That spells homo. (The Oblongs...; writing credit: Ana Katz) It's a bit insulting, really, it's our way of refering to Homo sapiens (The Tomorrow People; writing credit: Brian Finch) You stuck me with a God damned homo wand (Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein; writing credit: Brian O'Hara; Vito Cannella) You f-cking fudgepacker homo zombies (Zombiegeddon; writing credit: Chris Watson) Every person knows that Homo Sapiens is a killer (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fratello homo sorella bona (1972) Homo hominis (1971) Ecce Homo Homolka (1969) Homo et natura (1969) Ecce Homo (1968) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Footprints in the sand. The large footprint at the top was apparently made by Homo sapiens. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | House of Pontius Pilate. Church of Ecce Homo. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Cogito | The real and concrete truth, not the methodical and ideal, is: homo sum, ergo cogito. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, Homo ventrambulans. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Homo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.18% of the time. "Homo" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 78.18% | 43 | 52,181 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Unclassified Items | 1.82% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 55 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "homo": Ecce homo ♦ genus Homo ♦ homo erectus ♦ homo habilis ♦ homo heidelbergensis ♦ homo homini aut deus aut lupus ♦ homo rhodesiensis ♦ homo sapiens ♦ homo sapiens neanderthalensis ♦ homo sapiens sapiens ♦ homo soloensis ♦ homo triumliterarum ♦ homo vitae commodatus non donatus est. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "homo": homo-and, homo-capacity, homo-erotic, homo-eroticism, homo-ing, homo-oligomers, homo-taurocholic. | |
Containing "homo": hetero-homo-gay. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
homo | 714 | faber frisch homo max | 11 |
homo sapiens | 185 | picture of homo erectus | 10 |
homo erectus | 153 | homo antecessor | 9 |
homo habilis | 100 | homo plaatjes | 9 |
homo sex | 55 | homo ontmoetingsplaatsen | 9 |
homo sapiens sapiens | 41 | homo ludens | 9 |
homo thug | 38 | homo boy | 9 |
homo sapien | 35 | homo neanderthalensis | 8 |
ecce homo | 26 | dating homo | 8 |
homo ergaster | 24 | escort homo | 8 |
homo faber | 23 | homo erotic | 8 |
homo idaltu sapiens | 21 | homo man | 7 |
chat homo | 20 | homo thugs.com | 7 |
homo verhalen | 19 | homo videns | 7 |
homo re | 19 | archaic homo sapiens | 7 |
homo pic | 17 | homo fotos | 7 |
homo raging | 16 | homo foto | 6 |
gay homo | 16 | genus homo | 6 |
homo heidelbergensis | 14 | homo jonge jongens | 6 |
homo porn | 13 | gratis homo | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "homo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | njeri (creature, Cully, dog, human, human being, laddie, man, one, person, relative). (various references) | |
Arabic | متجانس بادئة, لوطي (gay, homosexual, invert, paederast, pansy, pederast, ponce, poof, prostitute, queer). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хомосексуалист (gay, homosexual, invert), човек (being, bloke, bod, body, fellow, figure, guy, head, human, human being, individual, Jack, Johnny, joker, liver, Mac, man, person, piece, subject, thing, type, Wight, you). (various references) | |
Czech | èlovìk (fellow, human being, one, person). (various references) | |
Danish | homofili (homo-eroticism), homoerotisme (homo-eroticism), homo sapiens (homo sapiens), homo pilosus (homo pilosus 2)hypertrichoid person), menneske med hypertrichose (homo pilosus 2)hypertrichoid person), isodonti (homo-isodontia), isochron (histograph, homo-isochronous, isochronal, isochrone, isochrone map), cornearuptur (homo-eroticism). (various references) | |
Dutch | hondmens (homo pilosus 2)hypertrichoid person), homo-erotisme (homo-eroticism), homo-eroticisme (homo-eroticism), homochroon (homo-isochronous), homo silvestris (homo pilosus 2)hypertrichoid person), homo sapiens (homo sapiens), haarmens (homo pilosus 2)hypertrichoid person), isodontie (homo-isodontia), isodontia (homo-isodontia), beermens (homo pilosus 2)hypertrichoid person). (various references) | |
Farsi | انسان (Man, Mortal), ادم (Adam, Cove, One, Person). (various references) | |
Finnish | ihminen (human being, man). (various references) | |
French | homo, pédé (homosexual), inverti (homosexual). (various references) | |
German | homo (fag, faggot, fairy, queen, queer), tunte (queen, sissy). (various references) | |
Greek | τριχωτός άνθρωπος (homo pilosus 2)hypertrichoid person), ομόχρονος (homo-isochronous), ομοιοδοντία (homo-isodontia), ομοφυλοφιλία (homosexuality), δασύτριχος άνθρωπος (homo pilosus 2)hypertrichoid person). (various references) | |
Hungarian | homokos (poof, poovy, sandy). (various references) | |
Italian | homo sapiens (homo sapiens), rottura della cornea (homo-eroticism), omoerotismo (homo-eroticism), omodontia (homo-isodontia), omocrono (homo-isochronous), omo- (homo-), LA Homoerotismus (homo-eroticism), isodontia (homo-isodontia), isocrono (homo-isochronous, isochronal, isochronous), cheratorressi (homo-eroticism). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ホッパー車 (hobby, hobby craft, Hoffmann, Homo economicus, Homo erectus, Homo habilis, Homo ludens, Homo movens, Homo sapiens, homogenize, homophony, homosexual, Honolulu, hop, hopper car, hops, hotel, photo multiplier, pogo stick). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ホモ . (various references) | |
Manx | Cur my ner yn dooinney (Ecce Homo). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omohay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | homoerotismo (homo-eroticism), homodôncia (homo-isodontia), homo- (homo-), homem peloso (homo pilosus 2)hypertrichoid person), homócrono (homo-isochronous), tipo humano segundo o sistema piloso (homo pilosus 2)hypertrichoid person), isodôncia (homo-isodontia). (various references) | |
Romanian | homosexual (faggot, gay, homosexual, Nancy, paederast, pansy, pederast, queer, sissy). (various references) | |
Russian | гомосексуалист (sodomite). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | čovek (bloke, chap, fellow, human, human being, jack, man, maun, one, person, stiff, walla). (various references) | |
Spanish | homosexualidad (homosexuality), homoerotismo (homo-eroticism), homodoncia (homo-isodontia), homo sapiens (homo sapiens), homo- (homo-), homócrono (homo-isochronous), tipo humano según el sistema piloso (homo pilosus 2)hypertrichoid person), persona con hipertricosis (homo pilosus 2)hypertrichoid person), isodoncia (homo-isodontia). (various references) | |
Swedish | bög (fag, faggot, fairy, fruit, gay, puff, queer). (various references) | |
Turkish | homoseksüel (camp, fruit, gay, homoerotic, homophile, homosexual, invert, pederast, poof, queen, queer, sod, sodomite, swish), homo, eşcinsel (camp, gay, homoerotic, homosexual, invert, inverted, queer). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гомо- (homo-), омо- (homo-), одно- (homo-, mono-, uni-). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tranh Chúa Giê-xu đội vòng gai (ecce homo). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 10, Verse 9 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | O oun o qeoV sunezeuxen anqrwpoV mh cwrizetw |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quod ergo Deus iunxit homo non separet |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þt god ge-samnode ne syndrige þt nanman. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Therfor that thing that God ioynede togidere, no man departe. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Therfore what God hath cuppled let not ma separat. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | What therefore God hath joined together, let not man separate. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 10, Verse 9 |
| Cebuano | Busa, ang sa Dios ginahiusa, sa tawo ayaw ipabulag sila." |
| Chinese | 所 以 神 配 合 的 、 人 不 可 分 開 。 |
| Croatian | Što dakle Bog združi, èovjek neka ne rastavlja!" |
| Danish | Derfor, hvad Gud har sammenføjet, må et Menneske ikke adskille. |
| Dutch | Hetgeen dan God samengevoegd heeft, scheide de mens niet. |
| Finnish | Minkä siis Jumala on yhdistänyt, sitä älköön ihminen erottako." |
| French | Que l`homme donc ne sépare pas ce que Dieu a joint. |
| Gaelic | An ni ma ta a cheangail Dia, na fuasgladh duine. |
| German | Was denn Gott zusammengefügt hat, soll der Mensch nicht scheiden. |
| Haitian Creole | Se poutèt sa pesonn pa gen dwa separe sa Bondye mete ansanm. |
| Hungarian | Annakokáért a mit az Isten egybe szerkesztett, ember el ne válaszsza. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Itu sebabnya, apa yang sudah disatukan oleh Allah, tidak boleh diceraikan oleh manusia!" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sebab itu, barang yang telah dijodohkan oleh Allah, janganlah diceraikan oleh manusia." |
| Latvian | Tâpçc, ko Dievs savienojis, to cilvçkam nebûs ðíirt. |
| Maori | Na, ko a te Atua i hono ai, kaua e wehea e te tangata. |
| Norwegian | Derfor, det som Gud har sammenføiet, det skal et menneske ikke adskille. |
| Portuguese | Porquanto o que Deus ajuntou, não o separe o homem. |
| Rumanian | Deci, ce a kmpreunat Dumnezeu, omul sq nu despartq.`` |
| Shuar | Tuma asa, Yus atsankiania nuna, aents akankashtiniaiti" Tímiayi. |
| Spanish | Por tanto, lo que Dios ha unido, no lo separe el hombre. |
| Swahili | Basi, alichounganisha Mungu, binadamu asitenganishe." |
| Swedish | Vad nu Gud har sammanfogat, det må människan icke åtskilja." |
| Uma | Toe pai' ku'uli' -kokoi: ane ntoa' Alata'ala mpoposidai' -ra, manusia' uma ma'ala mpogaa' -ra." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "homo": homocercal, homoerotic, homoeroticism, homoeroticisms, homogametic, homogamies, homogamous, homogamy, homogenate, homogenates, homogeneities, homogeneity, homogeneous, homogeneously, homogeneousness, homogeneousnesses, homogenies, homogenisation, homogenisations, homogenise, homogenised, homogenises, homogenising, homogenization, homogenizations, homogenize, homogenized, homogenizer, homogenizers, homogenizes, homogenizing, homogenous, homogeny, homogonies, homogony, homograft, homografts, homograph, homographic, homographs, homoiotherm, homoiothermic, homoiotherms, homoiousian, homoiousians, homolog, homologate, homologated, homologates, homologating, homologation. (additional references) | |
Words containing "homo": antihomosexual, bonhomous, cohomological, cohomologies, cohomology, inhomogeneities, inhomogeneity, inhomogeneous, nonhomogeneous, nonhomologous, nonhomosexual, nonhomosexuals, orthomolecular, overhomogenize, overhomogenized, overhomogenizes, overhomogenizing, phosphomonoesterase, phosphomonoesterases, psychomotor, sophomore, sophomores, sophomoric, trichomonacidal, trichomonacide, trichomonacides, trichomonad, trichomonads, trichomonal, trichomoniases, trichomoniasis, unhomogenized. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-m-o-o" | |
-1 letter: mho, moo, ohm, oho, ooh. | |
-2 letters: hm, ho, mo, oh, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-m-o-o" | |
+1 letter: homos, mooch, oomph. | |
+2 letters: chromo, hommos, moloch, moolah, morpho, oompah, oomphs, sholom, smooch, smooth, whomso. | |
+3 letters: chromos, goombah, hoboism, homeboy, hommock, homolog, homonym, homosex, hoodlum, hormone, manhood, molochs, mooched, moocher, mooches, moolahs, moonish, moorhen, moorish, morphos, nonhome, oompahs, schmoos, shampoo, shmooze, sholoms, smoochy, smooths, smoothy, somehow. | |
+4 letters: bathroom, besmooth, bonhomie, chromous, goombahs, handloom, headroom, heirloom, hemocoel, hoboisms, hologamy, hologram, homebody, homeboys, homeobox, homeotic, homeport, homeroom, hometown, homework, hominoid, hommocks, hommoses, homogamy, homogeny, homogony, homologs, homology, homonyms, homonymy, hoodlums, hookworm, hormonal, hormones, hormonic, hornworm, hoteldom, humorous, hymnbook, isomorph, logomach, lothsome, maidhood, manhoods, markhoor, micromho, monkhood, monohull, monolith, moochers, mooching, moonfish, moonshot, moorhens, mouchoir, mushroom, neomorph, nonohmic, omophagy, omphalos, oompahed, outhomer, outhumor, photomap, rehoboam, resmooth, rhomboid, schmoose, schmooze, semihobo, shampoos, shmoozed, shmoozes, showroom, smooched, smooches, smoothed, smoothen, smoother, smoothes, smoothie, smoothly, theonomy, townhome, washroom, whoredom, wormhole, yahooism, zoomorph. | |
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