semihomo

Latin

Etymology

From sēmi- (half) +‎ homō (man).

Pronunciation

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

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.
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