homunculus

• homonculus

Borrowed from Latin homunculus, diminutive of homō (“man”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɒˈmʌŋk.jʊ.ləs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /həˈmʌŋk.jə.ləs/, /hoʊˈmʌŋk.jə.ləs/

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homunculus (plural homunculi)

1. A miniature man, once imagined by spermists to be present in human sperm.
2. The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:homunculus.

• cortical homunculus
• homunculus argument

• homo
• homunculine

• manikin

• “homunculus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “homunculus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “homunculus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• omuncolo

Unadapted borrowing from Latin homunculus (“little man”). Compare the adapted borrowing omuncolo.

• IPA^(key): /oˈmun.ku.lus/
• Rhymes: -unkulus
• Hyphenation: ho‧mùn‧cu‧lus

homunculus m (invariable)

1. (alchemy, folklore) homunculus (a legendary figure resembling a little man, who was said to be created through alchemy)
2. (historical, biology) homunculus (the little man believed by preformationists to be inside human sperm)
3. (physiology, neuroscience) homunculus (nerve map realized as a distorted representation of the human body)

   homunculus corticale ― cortical homunculus

   homunculus motorio ― motor homunculus

• (sense 1 and 2): homunculus (alchimia) on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• (sense 3): homunculus corticale on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it
• omuncolo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• homunculus in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication

From homō, hominis +‎ -culus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hoˈmun.ku.lus/, [hɔˈmʊŋkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈmun.ku.lus/, [oˈmuŋkulus]

homunculus m (genitive homunculī); second declension

1. Diminutive of homō (“man”).
2. a little or weak man, homunculus
3. (rare) a dwarf

   Synonyms: nānus, pūmiliō

Second-declension noun.

• → Catalan: homuncle
• → English: homunculus
• → Spanish: homúnculo
• → French: homuncule
• → German: Homunkulus
• → Italian: homunculus
• → Japanese: ホムンクルス
• → Portuguese: homúnculo
• → Romanian: homunculus
• → Russian: гому́нкул (gomúnkul)

• “homunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “homunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• homunculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin homunculus.

homunculus m (plural homunculuși)

1. homunculus