semihomo

Latin

Etymology

From sēmi- (half) +‎ homō (man).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈseːm.ho.moː/, [ˈs̠eːm(ɦ)ɔmoː] or IPA^(key): /ˈseːm.ho.mo/, [ˈs̠eːm(ɦ)ɔmɔ]

In Classical Latin poetry, the word is found in the forms semihomines and semihominis, which are always scanned as heavy-light-light-heavy quadrisyllables, implying pronunciations with elision of the first i.

Noun

sēmihomō m (genitive sēmihominis); third declension

1. a half-human, half-beast

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sēmihomō	sēmihominēs
genitive	sēmihominis	sēmihominum
dative	sēmihominī	sēmihominibus
accusative	sēmihominem	sēmihominēs
ablative	sēmihomine	sēmihominibus
vocative	sēmihomō	sēmihominēs

See also

• sēmifer
• sēmimās

References

• “semihomo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “semihomo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• semihomo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.