humane

Variant form of human, now preserved in specialized senses.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hjuːˈmeɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn

humane (comparative humaner or more humane, superlative humanest or most humane)

1. Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.

   It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.

   As methods of execution go, beheading is more humane than drawing and quartering.

2. Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical literature or rhetoric.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 3, member 7:

     many divine precepts to counterpoise our hearts, special antidotes both in scriptures and humane authors, which who so will observe, shall purchase much ease and quietness unto himself.

3. Obsolete spelling of human

• inhuman, inhumane

• humanely

• “humane” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

• Humean

humane

1. definite singular of human
2. plural of human

• IPA^(key): /huˈmane/
• Hyphenation: hu‧ma‧ne

humane

1. humanely

humane

1. inflected form of human

From hūmānus (“humane, noble”)

hūmānē (comparative hūmānius, superlative hūmānissimē)

1. humanly, in a human manner.
2. humanely, kindly, politely; in a humane manner.

• (humanly): hūmāniter, hūmānitus
• (humanely): hūmāniter, hūmānitus

• humane in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• humane in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• humane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bear a thing with resignation, composure: humane, modice, moderate, sapienter, constanter ferre aliquid
    
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

humane

1. singular definite of human
2. plural of human

humane

1. singular definite of human
2. plural of human

humane

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of humanar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of humanar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of humanar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of humanar.

humane

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of human.