homo sapiens

Learned borrowing from New Latin homō sapiēns, from Latin homō (“human being”) + sapiēns (“wise, sensible, judicious”).

homo sapiens (plural homo sapiens or homines sapientes)

1. A human being (Homo sapiens).
   • 1992, Miguel Méndez, “Ledras y latrillos/Bricks and Belles Ladders”, in Charles M. Tatum, editor, New Chicana/Chicano Writing, volume 2, Tucson, Ariz.: The University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 57:

     […] 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 […]

   • 2019 May 13, James Griffiths, “There is more CO2 in the atmosphere today than any point since the evolution of humans”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     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.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

homo sapiens

1. plural of homo sapien

From homō (“human being”) + sapiēns (“wise, sensible, judicious”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhɔ.moː ˈsa.pi.ẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔː.mo ˈsaː.pi.ens]

homō sapiēns m (genitive hominis sapientis); third declension

1. (New Latin) homo sapiens

Third-declension noun with a third-declension adjective.