Finnish

Adverb

hemo

1. (colloquial) An intensifier.

   Nyt rupesi haluttaa ihan hemona.

   Now I've really got the urge like ****.

Anagrams

• home

Ido

Noun

hemo (plural hemi)

1. home

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ ‎(“earthling”), *dʰǵʰm̥mō ‎(“earthling”). Cognates include Old Lithuanian žmuõ ‎(“man”) and Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌼𐌰 ‎(guma).

Compare also nēmō ‎(“no one”), from *ne hemō. Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mon- (or *dʰǵʰm̥ó according to Mallory and Adams) is a derivative of *dʰéǵʰōm ‎(“earth”), whence also Latin humus. Thus, same Proto-Indo-European root gave both the nouns for man and earth; compare similar semasiological development in Semitic languages: Hebrew אָדָם ‎(adam, “man, soil”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhe.moː/, [ˈhɛ.moː]

Noun

hemō m ‎(genitive hemōnis); third declension

1. Alternative form of homō

Inflection

Third declension.

References

• hemo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “hemo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.