Word Origin Summary

Homo is attested in Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *ǵʰmṓProto-Indo-Europeaninherited from
2. *hemōProto-Italicinherited from

Descendants and Related Terms

• hombre

  Aragonese · inherited from

• Homo sapiens sapiens

  Translingual · derived from

• omu

  Sicilian · inherited from

• hombre

  Spanish · inherited from

• homme

  French · inherited from

• hombre

  English · borrowed from

• Homo ergaster

  Translingual · derived from

• houme

  Bourguignon · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root