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Grammar : Noun
Spell : huh-muhng-kyuh-luh s, hoh-
Phonetic Transcription : həˈmʌŋ kyə ləs, hoʊ-



Definition of homunculus

Origin :
  • 1650s, from Latin homunculus, literally "little person," from homo (genitive hominis) "man, human being," the Latin word that means "man, person, a human being" (technically "male human," but in logical and scholastic writing "human being"), also "the human race, mankind," perhaps from PIE *(dh)ghomon-, literally "earthling," from *dhghem- "earth" (see chthonic; also cf. human). With -culus, Latin diminutive suffix. Other Latin diminutives from homo included homullus, homuncio.
  • As in midget : noun small person
  • As in runt : noun very small person
  • As in dwarf : noun very small person
Example sentences :
  • I prefer the talk of the French homunculus; it is at least more amusing.
  • Extract from : « A Bundle of Letters » by Henry James
  • The homunculus offered me his last book, with his last smile.
  • Extract from : « The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard » by Anatole France
  • He satisfied himself that the brain of this homunculus was discernible.
  • Extract from : « A Few Words About the Devil » by Charles Bradlaugh
  • As he watches, the outlines of a diminutive human being—a mannikin or 'homunculus'—become visible and rapidly gain distinct form.
  • Extract from : « The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' » by H. B. Cotterill
  • Meanwhile the Homunculus has found congenial spirits among the sea-nymphs and sirens on the shores of the Aegean.
  • Extract from : « The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' » by H. B. Cotterill
  • The Homunculus in an ecstasy of love dashes himself against her chariot.
  • Extract from : « The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' » by H. B. Cotterill
  • It is often asked, and I think we may fairly ask, what Goethe meant to symbolize by his Homunculus.
  • Extract from : « The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' » by H. B. Cotterill
  • Adams came finally to acknowledge the unusual powers of the Western "homunculus" as a debater.
  • Extract from : « Stephen Arnold Douglas » by William Garrott Brown
  • It has been ascertained that A. homunculus had an external lachrymal foramen.
  • Extract from : « The Cambridge Natural History, Vol X., Mammalia » by Frank Evers Beddard
  • That minikin shivering old man, that homunculus, that thing, master of Europe and the West?
  • Extract from : « Wilderness of Spring » by Edgar Pangborn

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