prehuman
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Preceding the advent of modern humanity, Homo sapiens.
noun
One of the human-like creatures that existed before Homo sapiens.
Example Sentences
- "In the recently opened Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins, there are more than 200 casts of prehuman and human fossils and artifacts that illustrate stages in physical and behavioral evolution."
- "They said the find also added to evidence that painted a picture of Homo erectus as the prehumans who took long evolutionary strides — figuratively and, now it seems, also literally."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- Latin hūmānusbor. Old French umain Middle French humainbor. Middle English humayne English human English prehuman From pre- + human.