different between homo vs hoom

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??.m??/, /?h?m.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ho?.mo?/
• Rhymes: -??m??

Etymology 1

A clipping of words prefixed with homo-, from Ancient Greek ???- (homo-, “same”): i.e. homogenized and homosexual.

Noun

homo (countable and uncountable, plural homos)

1. (colloquial, often derogatory) Clipping of homosexual.

   I heard that he's a homo, but he hasn't come out of the closet yet.

2. (uncountable, dated, US, Canada) Homogenized milk with a high butterfat content.

Translations

Adjective

homo (comparative more homo, superlative most homo)

1. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Of or pertaining to homosexuality.
2. (not comparable, Canada, US) Homogenized; almost always said of milk with a high butterfat content.

Etymology 2

From Latin hom?? (“man, human”), sometimes as a shortening of Homo sapiens. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Doublet of gome.

Noun

homo (countable and uncountable, plural homos)

1. A human.
   • 1850: "X-ing a Paragrab" by Edgar Allan Poe

     John, John, if you don't go you're no homo--no! You're only a fowl, an owl, a cow, a sow,--a doll, a poll; a poor, old, good-for-nothing-to-nobody, log, dog, hog, or frog, come out of a Concord bog.

See also

• no homo

Anagrams

• Moho, moho

Chickasaw

Verb

homo

1. to roof

Czech

Etymology

Latin homo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??omo]

Noun

homo m

1. genus Homo, especially in informal and creative use
   • 1985, Listy:

     Tak sebou hni, ty moje malý homo sapiens! [...] m?j malý homo!

   • 2008, Jekaterina Andrikanis, Homevideo I. - aneb Sám sob? režisérem:

     Zapnutím kamery vstoupil „homo natá?ející“ do dialogu s „homo prohlížejícím“.

   Synonym: ?lov?k

Usage notes

• Specialists usually use the capitalized translingual spelling Homo.

Related terms

Further reading

• homo in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• homo in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Etymology

From homoseksueel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??o?.mo?/
• Hyphenation: ho?mo

Noun

homo m (plural homo's, diminutive homootje n)

1. (neutral, not offensive) gay, homosexual
2. (offensive, derogatory) Used as a general slur.

Usage notes

The word homo is a general, neutral and somewhat informal term for a homosexual person. It is used as a slur by some, but the term, or its use in this way, can be considered offensive. Because the word itself is not inherently offensive or vulgar, some people may take offense at the implication that homosexuality is something negative and shameful that could be used as a derogatory term. This depends, of course, on a particular person's attitude towards homosexuality. Compare similar usage of English gay.

Derived terms

• homohuwelijk

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin hom?. Compare Catalan home, French homme, Interlingua homine, Italian uomo, Portuguese homem, Romanian om, Sardinian òmine, Spanish hombre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?homo/
• Hyphenation: ho?mo
• Rhymes: -omo

Noun

homo (accusative singular homon, plural homoj, accusative plural homojn)

1. a human being, person
   • 1933, La Sankta Biblio, (Evangelio la? Luko 4:4):

     Kaj Jesuo respondis al li: Estas skribite, Ne per la pano sole vivos homo.

     Then Jesus answered him, "It is written, "Man shall not live by bread alone." (Luke 4:4)

Hypernyms

• homedo (“hominid”)

Hyponyms

• femino, homino, virino (“woman”)
• viro (“man”)
• homido, infano (“child”)

Holonyms

• homaro (“humanity”)

Derived terms

• homaranismo (“doctrine of regarding all of humanity as one's kin”)
• homamaso (“crowd”)
• kavernhomo (“cave dweller”)
• ne?homo (“snowperson”)
• prahomo (“a prehuman (neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, etc.)”)
• senhomejo (“uninhabited territory, no-man's-land”)

Descendants

• ? Ido: homo

See also

homo

Finnish

Noun

homo

1. gay man
2. (rare) any gay person
3. (offensive, derogatory) Used as a general slur.

Usage notes

The word homo is a general, neutral and somewhat informal term for a homosexual person. It is used as a slur by some, but either the term, or its use in this way, this can be considered offensive. Because the word itself is not inherently offensive or vulgar, some people may take offense at the implication that homosexuality is something negative and shameful that could be used as a derogatory term. This depends, of course, on a particular person's attitude towards homosexuality. Compare similar usage in Dutch.

Declension

Synonyms

• (gay male): homomies, homopoika, hinttari (derogatory), hintti (derogatory), homppeli
• (gay female): lesbo
• (gay person): homoseksuaali

Derived terms

• homo-

Compounds

See also

• hintti
• homppeli
• miehimys

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

From Latin hom?, from Proto-Indo-European *d???m?m? (“earthling”).

Pronunciation

• (Savoyard dialect) IPA^(key): /?omo/
• (Bressan dialect) IPA^(key): /?umu/

Noun

homo m (plural homos)

1. man

French

Etymology

Clipping of homosexuel.

Noun

homo m or f (plural homos)

1. gay (homosexual person, especially male)

Adjective

homo (plural homos)

1. gay, homo

Further reading

• “homo” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto homo, from English human, French homme and humain, Italian uomo, Spanish hombre, from Latin hom?, from Proto-Indo-European *d???m?m? (“earthling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ho.mo/

Noun

homo (plural homi)

1. human, man

Antonyms

• animalo (“animal”)

Derived terms

• homa (“human”)
• homala (“human”)
• homino (“female human”)
• homulo (“male human”)
• homaro (“mankind”)
• homeso (“humanity”)

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ho.mo/
• Hyphenation: ho?mo

Etymology

From English homo.

Noun

homo (first-person possessive homoku, second-person possessive homomu, third-person possessive homonya)

1. (colloquial, offensive) gay; homosexual

Italian

Noun

homo m (plural homini)

1. Obsolete spelling of omo
   1. man, person

Latin

Etymology

From earlier hem?, from Proto-Italic *hem?, from Proto-Indo-European *??m?m? (“earthling”), from *d?é???m (“earth”), whence Latin humus. Cognates include Old Lithuanian žmuõ (“man”), Gothic ???????????????? (guma) and Old English guma (“man”). See also n?m? (“no one”), from *ne hem?.

The phenomenon of a derivational relationship between the words for both earth and man is also seen in Semitic languages: Hebrew ?????? (adám, “man”), ???????? (adamá, “soil”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ho.mo?/, [?h?mo?] or IPA^(key): /?ho.mo/, [?h?m?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.mo/, [???m?]
• Note: iambic shortening of the final vowel before a following (primarily or secondarily) stressed syllable is very common, but in hexameter poetry this variation may simply have been lexicalised as arbitrary license.

Noun

hom?? m (genitive hominis); third declension

1. a human being, man, human, person
2. a male human being, man
3. (address) man, fellow, mate, pal, bud, partner, dude (a form of address to male peers, especially by another male)
4. (Medieval Latin) husband

Usage notes

• Claimed to be of common (epicene) gender by several grammarians, albeit with limited external supporting evidence - see quotations.
• When used with a modifier and referring to a woman, nevertheless agrees in the masculine gender (like Russian ???????? (?elovék) (Charisius, GL I, p.102.20–103.1 = pp.130.19–31.2 B.).
• In view of the above, as well as the existence of male-only uses, as in sense (2) and (3), using mulier (or f?mina) is suggested when there's need to refer exclusively to a female human, unless these are specifically dispreferred.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Hyponyms

• mulier
• m?s, masculus (focusing on biological sex)
• f?mina (focusing on biological sex; focusing on social status)
• puer, puella (focusing on age)
• adul?sc?ns m or f (focusing on age)
• iuvenis m or f (focusing on age)
• vir (focusing on social status)

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• homo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• homo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• homo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[6], London: Macmillan and Co.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Short for homofil (“homophile”) or homofil person (“homophile person”).

Adjective

homo (indeclinable)

1. homosexual, gay

Noun

homo m (definite singular homoen, indefinite plural homoer, definite plural homoene)

1. a homosexual or gay (male homosexual person).

Synonyms

• homofil
• homse
• soper

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• “homo” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “homo” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Short for homofil (“homophile”) or homofil person (“homophile person”).

Adjective

homo (indeclinable)

1. homosexual, gay

Noun

homo m (definite singular homoen, indefinite plural homoar, definite plural homoane)

1. a homosexual or gay (male homosexual person).

Synonyms

• homofil
• homse
• sopar

Derived terms

• homoekteskap
• homomarsj
• homoparade

Related terms

References

• “homo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Adjective

homo (plural homo, comparable)

1. homosexual (involving or relating to homosexuals)

   Synonyms: homossexual, gay

Spanish

Adjective

homo (invariable)

1. homo (homosexual)

Swedish

Noun

homo c

1. (colloquial) homosexual

Synonyms

• bög

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

homo c (plural homo's)

1. homosexual, gay person

Derived terms

• homorjochten

Further reading

• “homo”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• hobm, hobn, hom, ho, hob

Verb

hoom

1. (Timau) to have

References

• “hoom” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Middle English

Noun

hoom (plural hoomes)

1. Alternative form of hom (“home”)
   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Love Unfeigned" (as printed in Oxford Book of English Verse, 1900):

     Repeyreth hoom from worldly vanitee