Unknown. The term is probably connected tohomō(“human”), itself fromProto-Indo-European*ǵʰmṓ. Perhaps from*hūm(“earth”)-ānus. The form*hūm could possibly derive from earlier*hōm, with a phonological development similar toLatinfūr, from*fōr. However, de Vaan suggests that—in the example offūr—the labial consonant may have conditioned the sound shift. Moreover, de Vaan suggests that a word-final nasal would be dropped following*ō, implying that the final*m in*hōm would have to be restored on the model of the oblique cases (i.e. an accusative singular form*hōmem). Alternatively, the term has been connected toOld Irishdoíni and derived fromProto-Indo-European*ǵʰdʰoym-, though de Vaan suggests that the source of*-oy- in this form is uncertain.^[1]

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [huːˈmaː.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [uˈmaː.nus]

hūmānus (femininehūmāna,neuterhūmānum,comparativehūmānior,superlativehūmānissimus,adverbhūmānēorhūmāniter);first/second-declension adjective

1. human (ofman,people)
   • Heauton Timorumenos (“The Self-Tormentor”) byPublius Terentius Afer

     Homo sum,humani nihil a me alienum puto.

     I am a man, I consider nothing that ishuman alien to me.

2. humane,kind,philanthropic
   • 166BCE,Publius Terentius Afer,Andria113–114:

     Haec ego putābam esse omniahūmānī ingenī
     mānsuētīque animī officia.

     All these I considered to be the duties of ahumane mind and a gentle spirit.

3. cultured,refined

First/second-declension adjective.

hūmānus m (genitivehūmānī);second declension

1. (usually in theplural) ahuman,mortal

Second-declension noun.

• “humanus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “humanus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “humanus”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • human life:res humanae or simplyres
    
  • that is the way of the world; such is life:haec est rerum humanarum condicio
    
  • to despise earthly things:res externas orhumanas 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
    
• humanus inRamminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)),Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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