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Latin
Etymology
From sēmi- (half) + homō (man).
Pronunciation
In Classical Latin poetry, the word is found in the forms semihomines and semihominis, which are always scanned as heavy-light-light-heavy quadrisyllables, implying pronunciations with elision of the first i.
Noun
sēmihomō m (genitive sēmihominis); third declension
- a half-human, half-beast
Declension
Third-declension noun.
See also
References
- “semihomo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “semihomo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- semihomo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.