Homo sapiens

Translingual

Detail from Pioneer 11 spacecraft plaque

Homo sapiens sapiens

Etymology

New Latin, from Latin homo (“human being”) + sapiens (“wise, sensible, judicious”).

Pronunciation

pronunciations

English: (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌhəʊməʊ ˈseɪpiənz/ English: (US) IPA(key): /ˌhoʊmoʊ ˈseɪpiənz/ Dutch: IPA(key): /ˌɦoːmoː ˈsaːpiɛns/ French: IPA(key): /o.mo sa.pjɛ̃s/ German: IPA(key): [ˈhoːmo ˈzaːpi̯ɛns] Japanese: IPA(key): [ho̞mo̞sa̠piẽ̞ɴsɯᵝ] Latin: IPA(key): /ˌhomoː ˈsapiens/, [ˌhɔmoː ˈsapiẽːs] Portuguese: (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈhɔ.mu ˈsa.pi.ẽj̃s/

Proper noun

Homo sapiens m (plural Homines sapientes)

1. A taxonomic species within the family Hominidae — human.

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:Homo sapiens.

Synonyms

• H. sapiens (abbreviation)

Hypernyms

• (species): Hominidae - family; Homininae - subfamily; Hominini - tribe; Hominina - subtribe; Homo - genus

Hyponyms

• (species): Homo sapiens sapiens (modern human) (subspecies)
  • Homo sapiens idaltu (extinct subspecies)

See also

• In other scripts:
  • Japanese (Katakana script): ホモサピエンス (“homosapiensu”), ホモ・サピエンス (“homo-sapiensu”)
  • Korean (Korean script): 호모 사피엔스 (homo sapienseu, “homo sapienseu”)
  • Marathi (Devanagari script)): होमो सेपिएन्स m (homo sepiens, “homo sepiensa”)
  • Russian (Cyrillic script): гомо сапиенс m (gomo sapijens, “gómo sápiɛns”), человек разумный m (čelovek razumnyj, “čelovék razúmnyj”)
• Appendix:List of sequenced animal genomes

External links

• Homo sapiens on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Homo sapiens on Wikispecies. Wikispecies
•  Homo sapiens on Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons