Masculine
homem
Meaning
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- (masculine) male (human of masculine gender)
- (masculine, specifically) man (adult male human)
- (masculine) a person; a human being
- (masculine, uncountable) mankind (the human race in its entirety)
- (masculine, vocative) used to address a male, implying impatience or disappointment
- (colloquial, informal, masculine) male lover
- (in-compounds, masculine) a being who is half man and half creature, or a man with some characteristics of a creature
Frequency
Hyphenated as
ho‧mem
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈõ.mẽj̃/
Etymology
In summary
Etymology tree Latin homō Old Galician-Portuguese ome Portuguese homem From Old Galician-Portuguese ome, from earlier Old Galician-Portuguese omẽe, from Latin hominem (“a human”), from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ (“an earthling”).
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