homo sapiens
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
plural of Homo sapien.
noun
A human being (Homo sapiens).
noun
Example Sentences
- "[…] let’s take a look at the scenery tell me what do you think when you see all this pile-up of people these multitudes of man this humongosity of humanity this superabundance of homo sapiens ah well what I see is we’re in the barrio poor folk’s part of town where you find the masses […]"
- "According to data from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is over 415 parts per million (ppm), far higher than at any point in the last 800,000 years, since before the evolution of homo sapiens."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin homō sapiēns, from Latin homō (“human being”) + sapiēns (“wise, sensible, judicious”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: homō
Inflected Forms
homines sapientes (plural)