homunculus

Meaning

1. (invariable, masculine) homunculus (a legendary figure resembling a little man, who was said to be created through alchemy)
2. (historical, invariable, masculine) homunculus (the little man believed by preformationists to be inside human sperm)
3. (invariable, masculine) homunculus (nerve map realized as a distorted representation of the human body)

Translations

Homunkulus

homúnculo

Hyphenated as

ho‧mùn‧cu‧lus

Pronounced as (IPA)

/oˈmun.ku.lus/

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin homunculus (“little man”). Compare the adapted borrowing omuncolo.