Masculine
homme
Sentences
Meaning
- (masculine) man (adult male human)
- (masculine) man, Man (species)
- (masculine) man (employee)
Concepts
male person
Opposite of
femme, hommesse
Synonyms
espèce humaine
l’humanité
homo sapiens
homo sapiens sapiens
race humaine
sexe masculin
personne de sexe masculin
homme et femme
roi de la création
adult
homme de talent
homme véritable
les hommes
Mari
boy friend
homo sapien
I Love You
gv
mężczyzna
swain
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɔm/
Etymology
In summary
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.
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