Homo sapiens

Translingual

Lectotype of the species Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758, designated by Stearn, 1959. Portrait of Carl Linnaeus by Alexander Roslin, 1775.

Detail from Pioneer 11 spacecraft plaque

Etymology

From Latin homō (“human being”) + sapiēns (“wise, sensible, judicious”).

Pronunciation

pronunciations

English: (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌhəʊməʊ ˈseɪpi.ənz/, /ˌhəʊməʊ ˈsæpi.ənz/
English: (US) IPA^(key): /ˌhoʊmoʊ ˈseɪpi.ənz/
Catalan: (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ˌɔmo ˈsapiəns/
Catalan: (Central) IPA^(key): /ˌɔmu ˈsapiəns/
Catalan: (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˌɔmo ˈsapiens/
Dutch: IPA^(key): /ˌɦoːmoː ˈsaːpiɛns/
Finnish: IPA^(key): /ˈhomo ˈsɑpi.ens/
French: IPA^(key): /ɔ.mo sa.pjɛ̃s/
German: IPA^(key): [ˈhoːmo ˈzaːpi̯ɛns]
Hindi: IPA^(key): [ɦoːmoː sɛːpɪjəns]
Hungarian: IPA^(key): [ˈhoːmoːsaːpiʲɛns]
Latin: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈho.moː ˈsa.pi.ens/, [ˈhɔ.moː ˈsa.pi.ẽːs]
Portuguese: (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈho.mu ˈsa.pi.ẽj̃s/
Russian: IPA^(key): [ˈɡomə ˈsapʲɪ(j)ɪns], IPA^(key): [ˈɣomə ˈsapʲɪ(j)ɪns]
Spanish: IPA^(key): /omoˈsapjens/, [omoˈsapjẽns]

Proper noun

Homo sapiens m (plural Homines sapientes)

A taxonomic species within the family Hominidae – human.

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:Homo sapiens.

Synonyms

H. sapiens (abbreviation)

Hypernyms

(species): Hominidae - family; Homininae - subfamily; Hominini - tribe; Hominina - subtribe; Homo - genus

Hyponyms

(species): Homo sapiens sapiens (modern human) (subspecies)
- †Homo sapiens idaltu (extinct subspecies)

Derived terms

Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens sapiens

See also

In other scripts:
- Hindi (Devanagari script)): होमो सैपियन्स m (homo saipiyans)
- Japanese (Katakana script): ホモサピエンス (“homosapiensu”), ホモ・サピエンス (“homo-sapiensu”)
- Korean (Korean script): 호모 사피엔스 (homo sapienseu)
- Russian (Cyrillic script): го́мо са́пиенс m (gómo sápiens)
List of sequenced animal genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

Homo sapiens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Homo sapiens on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Homo sapiens on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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