Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

homo superioris

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English

Syllables: ho-mo -su-pe-ri-oris
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

6

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Alternative form of Homo superior (“The hypothetical next evolutionary step beyond Homo sapiens.”).

Example Sentences

"What is Homo superioris, evolution's Man of to-morrow, to be?"
"What chance has the species "homo superioris," of the poets and eugenists, of being born from racial stocks depleted mentally and physically by the environment of violence?"
"Homo superioris, in fact. We are the humans' remote descendants, as far removed from them in time and evolution as they are from early Homo erectus."

Etymology

From Latin homo (“human being, man, person”) and superioris (“of the higher, superior”), genitive of superior (“higher, superior”), or superior (“higher, superior”) + -is (“suffix to form adjectives”).

Questions

What does homo superioris mean?: Alternative form of Homo superior (“The hypothetical next evolutionary step beyond Homo sapiens.”).
Where does homo superioris come from?: From Latin homo (“human being, man, person”) and superioris (“of the higher, superior”), genitive of superior (“higher, superior”), or superior (“higher, superior”) + -is (“suffix to form adjectives”).

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