Latin

Adjective

hūmānus m ‎(feminine hūmāna, neuter hūmānum); first/second declension

1. human (of man, people)
   • Heauton Timorumenos (“The Self-Tormentor”) by Publius Terentius Afer

     Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.

     I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.

2. humane
3. cultured, refined
4. (substantive, usually plural) a human, mortal

Inflection

First/second declension.

• comparative: hūmānior, superlative: hūmānissimus

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Descendants

References

• humanus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• humanus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “humanus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • human life: res humanae or simply res
    
  • that is the way of the world; such is life: haec est rerum humanarum condicio
    
  • to despise earthly things: res externas or humanas despicere
    
  • to feel superior to the affairs of life: res humanas infra se positas arbitrari
    
  • to civilise men, a nation: homines, gentem a fera agrestique vita ad humanum cultum civilemque deducere (De Or. 1. 8. 33)
    
  • heavenly things; earthly things: supera et caelestia; humana et citerioria
    
• humanus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag