anthropoid

English

Etymology

From anthrop- +‎ -oid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈænθɹəpɔɪd/

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Adjective

anthropoid (comparative more anthropoid, superlative most anthropoid)

1. Having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance.
   • 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 4:

     The origin and development of language led to the differentiation of man from all other forms of animal life. Without this form of thought-communication and preservation man would never have achieved any higher degree of cerebration than the anthropoid ape.

   1. (anatomy, in pelvimetry) Of the pelvis, having an anteroposterior diameter equal or exceeding the transverse diameter.
2. Having characteristics of an ape.

Translations

having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance

• Belarusian: чалавекападо́бны (čalavjekapadóbny)
• Catalan: antropoide
• Finnish: ihmismäinen (fi)
• German: menschenähnlich (de)
• Greek: ανθρωποειδής (el) m or f (anthropoeidís)

  Ancient: ἀνθρωποειδής (anthrōpoeidḗs)

• Irish: antrapóideach
• Manx: antrapoydagh
• Polish: człekokształtny (pl), antropoidalny (pl)
• Portuguese: antropoide (pt)
• Romanian: antropoid (ro), antropomorf (ro)
• Russian: человекообра́зный (ru) (čelovekoobráznyj), человекоподо́бный (ru) (čelovekopodóbnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: човјеко̀лик, а̏нтропоӣдан

  Roman: čovjekòlik (sh), ȁntropoīdan (sh)

• Spanish: antropoide (es)
• Swedish: människoliknande (sv), antropoid (sv)
• Ukrainian: людиноподі́бний (ljudynopodíbnyj)

having characteristics of an ape

• Belarusian: антрапо́ідны (antrapóidny)
• Catalan: antropoide
• Czech: antropoidní
• Finnish: apinamainen
• Greek: ανθρωποειδής (el) m or f (anthropoeidís)
• Irish: antrapóideach
• Manx: antrapoydagh
• Romanian: antropoid (ro), antropomorf (ro)
• Russian: антропо́идный (ru) (antropóidnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мајмуно̀лик

  Roman: majmunòlik (sh)

• Spanish: antropoide (es)
• Ukrainian: антропо́їдний (antropójidnyj)

Noun

anthropoid (plural anthropoids)

1. An anthropoid animal.
   • 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 1, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914 June, →OCLC:

     The tribe of anthropoids over which Kerchak ruled with an iron hand and bared fangs, numbered some six or eight families, each family consisting of an adult male with his females and their young, numbering in all some sixty or seventy apes.

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     Here and there a little group of shattered Indians marked where one of the anthropoids had turned to bay, and sold his life dearly.

   • 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 6:

     Imagine for a moment that mankind, together with the printed and artistic lore of all the ages, were suddenly destroyed. Any new race of anthropoids which might arise would be in precisely the same position as the primitive races of mankind were in the days of Adam and Eve, and little better than the animals of to-day.

Translations

an anthropoid animal

• Afrikaans: antropoïed
• Catalan: antropoide m
• Czech: lidoop m
• Finnish: antropoidi (fi)
• French: anthropoïde (fr)
• Greek: ανθρωποειδές (el) n (anthropoeidés)
• Irish: antrapóideach m
• Manx: antrapoyd f
• Polish: antropoid (pl) m, małpa człekokształtna f
• Portuguese: antropoide (pt) m
• Romanian: antropoidă (ro) f, antropoide (ro) n pl

See also

• humanoid

Further reading

• “anthropoid”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.