humanus
See also: humānus
Latin
Etymology
From humus, with unclear ū.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /huːˈmaː.nus/, [huːˈmaː.nʊs]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Adjective
hūmānus (feminine hūmāna, neuter hūmānum); first/second declension
- human (of man, people)
- Heauton Timorumenos (“The Self-Tormentor”) by Publius Terentius Afer
- Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
- I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.
- Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
- Heauton Timorumenos (“The Self-Tormentor”) by Publius Terentius Afer
- humane
- cultured, refined
- (substantive, usually plural) a human, mortal
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | hūmānus | hūmāna | hūmānum | hūmānī | hūmānae | hūmāna | |
| Genitive | hūmānī | hūmānae | hūmānī | hūmānōrum | hūmānārum | hūmānōrum | |
| Dative | hūmānō | hūmānae | hūmānō | hūmānīs | hūmānīs | hūmānīs | |
| Accusative | hūmānum | hūmānam | hūmānum | hūmānōs | hūmānās | hūmāna | |
| Ablative | hūmānō | hūmānā | hūmānō | hūmānīs | hūmānīs | hūmānīs | |
| Vocative | hūmāne | hūmāna | hūmānum | hūmānī | hūmānae | hūmāna | |
- comparative: hūmānior, superlative: hūmānissimus
Descendants
References
- humanus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- humanus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- humanus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- human life: res humanae or simply res
- that is the way of the world; such is life: haec est rerum humanarum condicio
- to despise earthly things: res externas or humanas despicere
- to feel superior to the affairs of life: res humanas infra se positas arbitrari
- to civilise men, a nation: homines, gentem a fera agrestique vita ad humanum cultum civilemque deducere (De Or. 1. 8. 33)
- heavenly things; earthly things: supera et caelestia; humana et citerioria
- human life: res humanae or simply res
- humanus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
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