homunculus
英 [hɒ'mʌŋkjʊləs]
美
- n. 矮人，侏儒
英英释义
- 1. a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal
- 2. a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell
中文词源
homunculus 矮人，侏儒
来自拉丁语homunculus,小人，矮小的人，来自homo,人，-uncul,小词后缀，词源同avuncular.
英文词源
- homunculus (n.)
- 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 compare human). With -culus, Latin diminutive suffix. Other Latin diminutives from homo included homullus, homuncio.
词态变化
复数: homunculi;