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4-letter words (2 found)

HOMO,MOHO,

3-letter words (8 found)

HOM,HOO,MHO,MOO,OHM,OHO,OOH,OOM,

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HM,HO,MO,OH,OM,OO,

You can make 16 words from homo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of homo

homo

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhəʊ.məʊ/, /ˈhɒm.əʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈhoʊ.moʊ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊməʊ

Etymology 1

Clipping of homosexual.

Noun

homo (plural homos)

  1. (colloquial, often derogatory) Clipping of homosexual.
Translations

Adjective

homo (comparative more homo, superlative most homo)

  1. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Of or pertaining to homosexuality.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Clipping of homogenized.

Noun

homo (countable and uncountable, plural homos)

  1. (dated, US, Canada) Homogenized milk with a high butterfat content.
Related terms
  • homo milk
Translations

Adjective

homo (not comparable)

  1. (Canada, US) Homogenized; almost always said of milk with a high butterfat content.

Etymology 3

From Latin homō (“man, human”), sometimes as a shortening of Homo sapiens. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Doublet of gome, hombre, ombre, and omi.

Noun

homo (plural homos)

  1. (nonstandard) A human.
Related terms

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

  • Moho, moho

Bongo

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɔ̀mɔ̀/

Noun

homo

  1. nose

References

  • Moi, Daniel Rabbi and Mario Lau Babur Kuduku, Sister Mary Mangira Michael, Simon Hagimir John, Rapheal Zakenia Paul Mafoi, Nyoul Gulluma Kuduku. 2018. Bongo – English Dictionary. Juba, South Sudan. SIL-South Sudan.

Chickasaw

Etymology

From the same root as holmo (v1.), which is related to Choctaw holmo (“roof”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ho.mo/

Verb

homo

  1. (active voice, transitive, nominal object) to roof, to put a roof on

Inflection

Derived terms

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin homō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɦomo]

Noun

homo n (indeclinable)

  1. genus Homo, especially in informal and creative use
    Synonym: člověk

Usage notes

  • Specialists usually use the capitalized translingual spelling Homo.

Related terms

Further reading

  • “homo”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
  • “homo”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • (internet slang) heaumeau

Etymology

Clipping of homoseksueel and/or homofiel.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɦoː.moː/
  • Hyphenation: ho‧mo

Noun

homo m (plural homo's, diminutive homootje n)

  1. (neutral, not offensive) gay, homosexual
  2. (offensive, derogatory) Used as a general slur

Usage notes

The word homo is a general, neutral and somewhat informal term for a homosexual person. It is used as a slur by some, but the term, or its use in this way, can be considered offensive. Because the word itself is not inherently offensive or vulgar, some people may take offense at the implication that homosexuality is something negative and shameful that could be used as a derogatory term. This depends, of course, on a particular person's attitude towards homosexuality. Compare similar usage of English gay.

Derived terms

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin homō. Compare French homme, Italian uomo. Doublet of oni.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhomo/
  • Rhymes: -omo
  • Hyphenation: ho‧mo

Noun

homo (accusative singular homon, plural homoj, accusative plural homojn)

  1. a human being, person
    • 1933, La Sankta Biblio, (Evangelio laŭ Luko 4:4):

Hypernyms

  • homedo (“hominid”)

Hyponyms

  • femino, homino, virino (“woman”)
  • viro (“man”)
  • homido, infano (“child”)

Holonyms

  • homaro (“humanity”)

Derived terms

  • homaranismo (“doctrine of regarding all of humanity as one's kin”)
  • homamaso (“crowd”)
  • kavernhomo (“cave dweller”)
  • neĝhomo (“snowperson”)
  • prahomo (“a prehuman (neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, etc.)”)
  • senhomejo (“uninhabited territory, no-man's-land”)

Descendants

  • → Ido: homo

See also

homo

Finnish

Etymology

Clipping of homoseksuaali.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhomo/, [ˈho̞mo̞]
  • Rhymes: -omo
  • Syllabification(key): ho‧mo
  • Hyphenation(key): ho‧mo

Noun

homo

  1. gay man
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:homo
  2. (rare) any gay person
  3. (offensive, derogatory) Used as a general slur.

Usage notes

The word homo is a general, neutral and somewhat informal term for a homosexual person. It is used as a slur by some, but either the term, or its use in this way, can be considered offensive. Because the word itself is not inherently offensive or vulgar, some people may take offense at the implication that homosexuality is something negative and shameful that could be used as a derogatory term. This depends, of course, on a particular person's attitude towards homosexuality. Compare similar usage in Dutch.

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

  • miehimys

Further reading

  • “homo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin homō.

Noun

homo m (plural homos) (ORB, broad)

  1. man
    Coordinate term: fèna (“woman”)

Derived terms

  • homâjo

References

  • homme in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • homo in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Etymology

Clipping of homosexuel.

Pronunciation

Noun

homo m or f by sense (plural homos)

  1. gay (homosexual person, especially male)

Adjective

homo (plural homos)

  1. gay, homo

Further reading

  • “homo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto homo, from English human, French homme and humain, Italian uomo, Spanish hombre, from Latin homō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mō (“earthling”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈho.mo/

Noun

homo (plural homi)

  1. human, man

Antonyms

  • animalo (“animal”)

Derived terms

  • homa (“human”)
  • homala (“human”)
  • homino (“female human”)
  • homulo (“male human”)
  • homaro (“mankind”)
  • homeso (“humanity”)

Indonesian

Etymology

From English homo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ho.mo/
  • Hyphenation: ho‧mo

Noun

homo (plural homo-homo)

  1. (colloquial, offensive) gay; homosexual

Synonyms

  • maho (slang)
  • jomok (slang)

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ.mo/
  • Rhymes: -ɔmo
  • Hyphenation: hò‧mo

Noun

homo m (plural homini)

  1. (obsolete) Obsolete spelling of omo.
    1. man, person

Latin

Etymology

    From earlier hemō, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ (“earthling”), from *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”), whence Latin humus. Cognates include Old Lithuanian žmuõ (“man”), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌼𐌰 (guma) and Old English guma (“man”) (whence English gome). See also nēmō (“no one”), from *ne hemō.

    The phenomenon of a derivational relationship between the words for both earth and man is also seen in Semitic languages: Hebrew אָדָם (adám, “man”), אֲדָמָה (adamá, “soil”).

    Pronunciation

    • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈhɔ.moː], [ˈhɔ.mɔ]
    • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔː.mo]
    • Note: iambic shortening of the final vowel before a following (primarily or secondarily) stressed syllable is very common, but in hexameter poetry this variation may simply have been lexicalised as arbitrary license.

    Noun

    homō̆ m (genitive hominis); third declension

    1. a human being, man, human, person
    2. a male human being, man
    3. (address) man, fellow, mate, pal, bud, partner, dude (a form of address to male peers, especially by another male)
    4. (address) used in the vocative expression "mi homo" as a form of address to a man by a woman
    5. (Medieval Latin) husband

    Usage notes

    • Homo has the basic sense of "human being" and is often used generically to mean “Man” or “men” in the broad sense of "humanity", encompassing both male and female human beings. It is not typically used to specify or emphasize male as opposed to female sex: the usual terms to express “man” in the sense “male” are vir (“adult male human being”) or mās (“male”). There are rare examples in early Latin of homō being used in contrast to an explicitly female term such as mulier (“woman”), such as Plautus Cistellaria 723, but this only becomes frequent in late Latin.
    • When referring to specific human beings, homō is more often applied to male rather than female persons in the corpus of ancient Latin texts. For Romans, the use of homō versus vir when referring to a male human being was influenced by the differing social connotations of the two words: vir tends to be reserved as a positive designation for men of the Roman upper class, whereas the more generic term homō is frequently used to refer to men of lower social orders or foreigners, and also to refer to upper class men in contexts where the positive connotations of vir would be out of place. For example, homō rather than vir tends to be used by Cicero in connection with pejorative adjectives. There seems to have been a similar distinction in social connotation between mulier (“woman”), the general word for 'woman' that could be used in neutral or negative contexts, and fēmina (“female, woman”), which had positive, aristocratic overtones when used as a designation for a woman.
    • Homo is claimed to be of common (epicene) gender by several grammarians, albeit with limited external supporting evidence - see quotations. When used with a modifier and referring to a woman, nevertheless agrees in the masculine gender (like German Mensch, Russian челове́к (čelovék)) (Charisius, GL I, p.102.20–103.1 = pp.130.19–31.2 B.).
    • The Old Latin form hominus shows the rare genitive singular ending -us instead of the standard Classical Latin ending -is. This unique ending is poorly attested and largely exclusive to religious or legal documents.

    Declension

    Third-declension noun.

    Hyponyms

    • mulier (“adult human woman”)
    • vir (“adult human man”) (with connotations of freeborn status and possession of masculine virtues)
    • fēmina (“female; woman”) (in Republican Latin, used especially to refer to women of social rank, functioning as a female counterpart of vir and a more respectful synonym of mulier)
    • mās (“male”), masculus
    • puella (“girl”)
    • puer (“boy”)
    • adulēscēns m or f (“adolescent”)
    • iuvenis m or f (“youth”)
    • senex m or f (“aged person; old man; old woman”)

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    References

    Further reading

    • “homo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “homo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "homo", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[8], London: Macmillan and Co.

    Norwegian Bokmål

    Etymology

    Short for homofil (“homophile”) or homofil person (“homophile person”).

    Adjective

    homo (indeclinable)

    1. homosexual, gay

    Noun

    homo m (definite singular homoen, indefinite plural homoer, definite plural homoene)

    1. a homosexual or gay (male homosexual person).

    Synonyms

    • homofil
    • homse
    • soper

    Derived terms

    Related terms

    References

    • “homo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
    • “homo” in The Ordnett Dictionary

    Norwegian Nynorsk

    Etymology

    Short for homofil (“homophile”) or homofil person (“homophile person”).

    Adjective

    homo (indeclinable)

    1. homosexual, gay

    Noun

    homo m (definite singular homoen, indefinite plural homoar, definite plural homoane)

    1. a homosexual or gay (male homosexual person).

    Synonyms

    • homofil
    • homse
    • sopar

    Derived terms

    • homoekteskap
    • homomarsj
    • homoparade

    Related terms

    References

    • “homo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

    Portuguese

    Pronunciation

    • Hyphenation: ho‧mo

    Adjective

    homo (invariable)

    1. (derogatory) homosexual (involving or relating to homosexuals)
      Synonyms: homossexual, gay

    Romanian

    Etymology

    Clipping of homosexual.

    Noun

    homo m (plural homo)

    1. (slang) gay

    Declension

    Spanish

    Adjective

    homo (invariable)

    1. homo (homosexual)

    Further reading

    • “homo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

    Swedish

    Noun

    homo c or n

    1. (colloquial, chiefly derogatory) a homo (homosexual)
      Synonym: bög

    Adjective

    homo

    1. (colloquial, only used predicatively) homosexual
      Synonym: homosexuell

    See also

    • bi
    • hetero

    References

    • homo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
    • homo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
    • homo in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

    West Frisian

    Etymology

    (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

    Noun

    homo c (plural homo's)

    1. homosexual, gay person

    Derived terms

    • homorjochten

    Further reading

    • “homo”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

    Source: wiktionary.org