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Origin of ‘HUMAN’ and ‘HOMO’ The word was first attested in English in the middle of the 15 th century in the form of ‘humain, humaigne’, borrowed from 12-century French (‘umain’), ultimately from Latin (‘’humanus) and ‘homo’ (i.e. ‘man’, ‘person’)1.
18 gru 2023 · "human," from Old French humain, umain (adj.) "of or belonging to man" (12c.), from Latin… See origin and meaning of human.
The adjective human derives first of all from the Latin word humanus, meaning "of a man." It, then, became an French word in the Middle Ages, and after the Norman Conquest of 1066, it found its...
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The earliest known use of the word human is in the Middle English period (1150—1500). OED's earliest evidence for human is from around 1450, in Book of Knight of La Tour Landry.
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