homem
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
- IPA(key): /ˈɔmeŋ/ [ˈɔ.mẽŋ]
- Rhymes: -ɔmeŋ
- Hyphenation: ho‧mem
Noun
homem m (plural homens, reintegrationist norm)
- reintegrationist spelling of home
References
- “homem”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2025
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited 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
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.mɐ̃j̃/
Audio (Brazil): (file) Audio (Portugal (Porto)): (file) - Rhymes: (Brazil) -õmẽj̃, (Portugal) -ɔmɐ̃j̃
- Hyphenation: ho‧mem
Noun
homem m (plural homens)
- male (human of masculine gender)
- Synonym: varão
- (specifically) man (adult male human)
- a person; a human being
- Synonyms: humano, pessoa, ser humano
- (uncountable, with definite article o, often capitalized) mankind (the human race in its entirety)
- Synonym: humanidade
- O Homem conquistará o espaço.
- Mankind shall conquer space.
- (vocative) used to address a male, implying impatience or disappointment
- Ainda não terminou, homem!
- You still haven't finished it, man!
- (colloquial, informal, with possessive pronoun) male lover
- (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-formiga
- antman
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:homem.
Coordinate terms
- (human male): mulher
Derived terms
- abominável homem das neves
- como um só homem
- de homem para homem
- Deus homem
- homão (augmentative)
- homem ao mar
- homem das cavernas
- homem de armas
- homem de Deus
- homem de Estado
- homem de letras
- homem de Neandertal
- homem de negócios
- homem de palho
- homem do lixo
- homem do mar
- homem do saco
- homem-bala
- homem-bom
- homem-estátua
- homem-peixe
- homem-sanduíche
- homenzão (augmentative)
- homenzarrão (augmentative)
- homenzinho (diminutive)
- hominho (diminutive)
- semi-homem
Related terms
Descendants
Adjective
homem m or f (plural homens)
- manly (displaying stereotypical characteristics of a male)
- Synonym: macho
- João não é muito homem; foge sempre 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.