homem

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese ome, from earlier Old Galician-Portuguese omẽe, from Iberian Vulgar Latin *omine, from Latin hominem, accusative of homō, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ (“earthling”).

Pronunciation

Noun

homem m (plural homens, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of home

References

  • “homem” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

Um homem

Alternative forms

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

homem m (plural homens)

  2. male (human of masculine gender)
  4. (specifically) man (adult male human)
  6. a person; a human being
  8. (uncountable, with definite article o) mankind (the human race in its entirety)
    O homem conquistará o espaço.
    Mankind shall conquer space.
  10. (vocative) used to address a male, implying impatience or disappointment
    Ainda não terminou, homem!
    You still haven’t finished it, man!
  11. (colloquial, informal, with possessive pronoun) male lover
  13. (in compounds, fiction) a being who is half man and half creature, or a man with some characteristics of a creature
    homem-aranha
    spiderman
    homem-lobo
    werewolf

Usage notes

  • The H can be capitalized to emphasize the mankind sense.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:homem.

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Descendants

  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: omi
  • Indo-Portuguese: homm
  • Kabuverdianu: ómi
  • Korlai Creole Portuguese: ɔm
  • Kristang: omi
  • Macanese: home
  • Principense: omi
  • Saramaccan: womi

Adjective

homem m or f (plural homens)

  2. manly (displaying stereotypical characteristics of a male)
    Synonym: macho
    João não é muito homem; sempre foge às lutas.
    John isn’t very manly; he always runs away from fights.
    Seja homem e pule.
    Be a man and jump.
    Ele é mais homem que seus amigos.
    He is manlier than his friends.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:homem.

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