different between human vs obex

English

Etymology

From Late Middle English humayne, humain, from Middle French humain, from Latin h?m?nus m (“of or belonging to a man, human, humane”, adjective), from humus, with unclear ?. Spelling human has been predominant since the early 18th century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?(h)ju?.m?n/, [?(ç)ju??m?n], [?(ç)ju??mn?]
• (US) enPR: (h)yo?o?m?n, (h)yo?om?n, IPA^(key): /?(h)ju.m?n/, [?(ç)ju?m?n], [?(ç)ju?mn?]
  • (NYC, some other US dialects) IPA^(key): /?ju.m?n/
• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /?hju?.m?n/
• Rhymes: -u?m?n
• Hyphenation: hu?man

Adjective

human (comparative more human, superlative most human)

2. (not comparable) Of or belonging to the species Homo sapiens or its closest relatives.
3. (comparable) Having the nature or attributes of a human being.
   • 2011 August 17, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., The Many Wars of Google: Handset makers will learn to live with their new ‘frenemy’, Business World, Wall Street Journal,

     Google wouldn't be human if it didn't want some of this loot, which buying Motorola would enable it to grab.

Alternative forms

• humane (obsolete)

Synonyms

• mannish, mennish (now rare)

Derived terms

Pages starting with “human”.

Related terms

• humane
• humanitarian
• humanitarianism
• humanity

Translations

Noun

human (plural humans)

2. A human being, whether man, woman or child; a member of the species Homo sapiens.

   Synonyms: human being, man; see also Thesaurus:person

3. A member of the subtribe Hominina, including the neanderthal.

Translations

Verb

human (third-person singular simple present humans, present participle humaning, simple past and past participle humaned)

1. (rare) To behave as or become, or to cause to behave as or become, a human.

References

Further reading

• human on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• human in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• human in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• human at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Nahum

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: hu?man

Verb

human

1. to finish

Adjective

human

1. completed; done

Adverb

human

1. after

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:human.

Danish

Adjective

human

1. human (having the nature or attributes of a human being)
2. humane (something done from love to humanity)

Inflection

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu?ma?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Adjective

human (comparative humaner, superlative am humansten)

1. humane

Declension

Related terms

• Humanismus
• Humanist
• humanistisch

Further reading

• “human” in Duden online

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?human/

Verb

human

1. first-person singular present indicative of hupmat

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin h?m?nus.

Adjective

human (neuter singular humant, definite singular and plural humane)

1. humane

References

• “human” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin h?m?nus.

Adjective

human (neuter singular humant, definite singular and plural humane)

1. humane

References

• “human” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin h?m?nus.

Adjective

human m (feminine singular humana, masculine plural humans, feminine plural humanas)

1. (Sursilvan) human

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) uman
• (Puter) umaun

Noun

human m (plural humans)

1. (Sursilvan) (male) human being

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Vallader) uman
• (Puter) umaun

Synonyms

• carstgaun

Coordinate terms

• carstgauna, humana

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xûma?n/
• Hyphenation: hu?man

Adjective

h?m?n (definite h?m?n?, comparative humaniji, Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. humane (with regard for the health and well-being of another; compassionate)

Declension

Spanish

Verb

human

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of humar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of humar.

Swedish

Adjective

human

1. humane, decent, compassionate

2. (of prices) reasonable

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin obex (“barrier, wall”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.b?ks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o??b?ks/

Noun

obex (plural obices)

1. (anatomy) A small, crescentic fold of white matter that covers the inferior angle of the floor of the fourth ventricle.

References

• “obex”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “obex”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Etymology

From obici? (“to throw or put before or towards”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o?.beks/, [?o?b?ks?] or IPA^(key): /?o.beks/, [??b?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.beks/, [???b?ks]

In Classical Latin, the forms of this word built on the oblique stem obic- may have originally been pronounced with an unwritten /j/ sound, making the first syllable of the word /ob/ (which contains the short vowel /o/ and scans as a heavy syllable because of the coda consonant /b/). For example, in Attic Nights 4.17, Aulus Gellius indicates that the learned grammarian Sulpicius Apollinaris read obicibus with a short o and a doubled ("gemina") letter i where it occurs in Vergil's Georgics with heavy-light-light-heavy scansion; this implies a pronunciation /ob.ji.ki.bus/. The same situation of a single letter I potentially representing a sequence of the consonant /j/ and short vowel /i/ is found with the verb obici? and a number of other prefixed verbs derived from iaci?.

Gellius criticizes as ignorant those who pronounce obici?bat and subices with long vowels (i.e. /o?/ and /u?/) for the sake of the meter, a comment which implies that pronunciations with /ob.ji/ and /sub.ji/ were not universally used for derivatives of iacio during the second century, and may have been simplified in normal speech to /o.bi/ and /su.bi/ for for many speakers of that time.

There is less evidence about the Classical Latin pronunciation of the nominative singular form obex as the word was rarely used in this form.

Noun

??bex m or f (genitive ??bicis); third declension

1. bolt, bar; barrier, wall
   • Publius Vergilius Maro, Georgica, 2.1

     unde tremor terris, qua vi maria alta tumescant / obicibus ruptis rursus que in se ipsa residant

2. hindrance, impediment, obstacle

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• obici?

Descendants

• English: obex
• Portuguese: óbice
• Spanish: óbice

References

• obex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• obex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• obex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obex in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin