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4-letter words (2 found)

HOMO,MOHO,

3-letter words (8 found)

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

2-letter words (6 found)

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

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

All 4 letters words made out of homo

homo ohmo hmoo mhoo omho moho hoom ohom hoom ohom oohm oohm hmoo mhoo homo ohmo moho omho omoh mooh oomh oomh mooh omoh

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word homo. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in homo.

Definitions and meaning of homo

homo

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.
    I heard that he's a homo, but he hasn't come out of the closet yet.
Translations

Adjective

homo (comparative more homo, superlative most homo)

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

Etymology 2

Clipping of homogenized.

Noun

homo (countable and uncountable, plural homos)

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

Adjective

homo (not comparable)

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

Etymology 3

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

Noun

homo (plural homos)

  1. (nonstandard) A human.
See also
  • omi, omee
References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

See also

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 homo.

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
  • homo in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Etymology

Clipping of homoseksueel or Clipping of 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

  • homohuwelijk

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhomo]
  • Audio:
  • 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

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

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 hominem.

Noun

homo m (ORB)

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

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 (first-person possessive homoku, second-person possessive homomu, third-person possessive homonya)

  1. (colloquial, offensive) gay; homosexual

Synonyms

  • maho (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”). 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) IPA(key): /ˈho.moː/, [ˈhɔmoː] or IPA(key): /ˈho.mo/, [ˈhɔmɔ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.mo/, [ˈɔːmo]
  • 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

homō 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

  • Homō 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.
  • Homō 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.).

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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