homme

Signification

1. man (adult male human)
2. man, Man (species)
3. man (virile male)
4. man (employee)

Genre

♂️ Masculin

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɔm/

Étymologie

Inherited from Middle French homme, from Old French home, hom, hume, homme, etc, from Latin hominem (with the loss of the -in- syllable, via syncope and then assimilation of -mn- to -mm-), from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”). Compare Catalan home, Italian uomo, Portuguese homem, Romanian om, Sardinian òmine, Neapolitan ommo, Spanish hombre. Also doublet of on, derived from the nominative of Latin homō.
Further cognates in regional languages in France: Norman houme, Gallo honme, Picard onme, Bourguignon oume, Franco-Provençal homo, Occitan òme, Corsican omu.

Phrases

Il venait de voler aux lois un homme qui leur appartenait .

He had just robbed the laws of a man who belonged to them.

Quelque temps plus tard , un autre homme arrive , au physique identique .

Some time later, another man arrives, with an identical physique.

Vis , bête ; vis , caillou ; vis , homme ; vis , buisson !

Screw, beast; screw, pebble; screw, man; screw, bush!

C’était un homme bien distingué .

He was a distinguished man.

Avant-hier soir , j'ai reconnu notre homme , notre duc .

The day before yesterday, I recognized our man, our duke.

Elle est là pour rejoindre un homme condamné au bagne en Guyane .

She is there to join a man sentenced to prison in French Guiana.

Cet homme était passionné d'activités éducatives .

This man was passionate about educational activities.