Synonyms for homunculus
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : huh-muhng-kyuh-luh s, hoh- |
| Phonetic Transcription : həˈmʌŋ kyə ləs, hoʊ- |
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Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for homunculus
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