# homo
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈhəʊ.məʊ/, /ˈhɒm.əʊ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈhoʊ.moʊ/
* Rhymes: -əʊməʊ

### Etymology 1

Clipping of homosexual.

#### Noun

homo (plural homos)
* (colloquial, often derogatory) Clipping of homosexual.
    I heard that he's a homo, but he hasn't come out of the closet yet.
** 1938, Cecil Day Lewis, Starting point‎, page 127:"... He's a homo." "My dear Theo, at my age one can't worry about little details like that. Besides, he's got such a nice voice."

##### Translations
#### Adjective

homo (comparative more homo, superlative most homo)
* (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) Of or pertaining to homosexuality.

##### Derived terms

* homo marriage
* no homo
* no promo homo
* yes homo

### Etymology 2

Clipping of homogenized.

#### Noun

homo (countable and uncountable, plural homos)
* (dated, US, Canada) Homogenized milk with a high butterfat content.
** 1956, Purdue University. Agricultural Experiment Station., Station bulletin‎, page 25:One quart of homo wholesale in glass equals one quart equivalent. Certain modifications were made in these relatives to adjust for variations in units per ...

##### Related terms

* homo milk

##### Translations
#### Adjective

homo (not comparable)
* (Canada, US) Homogenized; almost always said of milk with a high butterfat content.
** 1958, American milk review and milk plant monthly‎, volume 20, page 190:Regular homo milk was being sold out of stores in half gallons for 33 cents against 44 cents on regular homo milk on home delivery.

### Etymology 3

From Latin homō (“man, human”), sometimes as a shortening of Homo sapiens. (Can this etymology be sourced?) Doublet of gome, hombre, ombre, and omi.

#### Noun

homo (plural homos)
* (nonstandard) A human.
** 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, X-ing a Paragrab: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.

##### Related terms

* ecce homo
* homo Aristophaneus
* homo faber
* homo negronus
* homo negronus Americanus
* homo oeconomicus
* homo politicus
* homo sacer
* homo sapien

#### References

* John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

### Anagrams

* Moho, moho

## Bongo
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɔ̀mɔ̀/

### Noun

homo
* nose

### References

* Moi, Daniel Rabbi and Mario Lau Babur Kuduku, Sister Mary Mangira Michael, Simon Hagimir John, Rapheal Zakenia Paul Mafoi, Nyoul Gulluma Kuduku. 2018. Bongo – English Dictionary. Juba, South Sudan. SIL-South Sudan.

## Chickasaw
### Etymology

From the same root as holmo (v1.), which is related to Choctaw holmo (“roof”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ho.mo/

### Verb

homo
* (active voice, transitive, nominal object) to roof, to put a roof on

#### Inflection

| Verbs beginning with a consonant. | Singular | Plural | Inclusive Tri-Plural |
| 1st-person (I, we) | homoli homo-li | iihomo / iliihomo / liihomo ii-homo / ilii-homo / lii-homo | iloohomo iloo-homo |
| 2nd-person (you, you all) | ishhomo ish-homo | hashhomo hash-homo | hashhomo hash-homo |
| 3rd-person (he, she, it, they) | homo | (hoo)homo (hoo-)homo | (hoo)homo (hoo-)homo |

#### Derived terms

* hóꞌmo
* i̱homo

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin homō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɦomo]

### Noun

homo n (indeclinable)
* genus Homo, especially in informal and creative use
    Synonym: člověk
** 1985, Listy:Tak sebou hni, ty moje malý homo sapiens! [...] můj malý homo!(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 2008, Jekaterina Andrikanis, Homevideo I. - aneb Sám sobě režisérem:Zapnutím kamery vstoupil „homo natáčející“ do dialogu s „homo prohlížejícím“.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Usage notes

* Specialists usually use the capitalized translingual spelling Homo.

#### Related terms

* dehumanizace
* dehumanizovat
* hominid
* hominismus
* humanismus
* humanista
* humanistický
* humanita
* humanitarismus
* humanitární
* humanitní
* humanizace
* humanizovat
* humanoid
* humanoidní
* humánní

### Further reading

* “homo”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
* “homo”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

## Dutch
### Alternative forms

* (internet slang) heaumeau

### Etymology

Clipping of homoseksueel and/or homofiel.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɦoː.moː/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ho‧mo

### Noun

homo m (plural homo's, diminutive homootje n)
* (neutral, not offensive) gay, homosexual
* (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

* homobar
* homoclub
* homohaat
* homohuwelijk

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin homō. Compare French homme, Italian uomo. Doublet of oni.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈhomo]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -omo
* Hyphenation: ho‧mo

### Noun

homo (accusative singular homon, plural homoj, accusative plural homojn)
* a human being, person
** 1933, La Sankta Biblio, (Evangelio laŭ 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”)
* neĝhomo (“snowperson”)
* prahomo (“a prehuman (neanderthal, Cro-Magnon, etc.)”)
* senhomejo (“uninhabited territory, no-man's-land”)

#### Descendants

* → Ido: homo

### See also

homo

## Finnish
### Etymology

Clipping of homoseksuaali.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhomo/, [ˈho̞mo̞]
* Rhymes: -omo
* Hyphenation: ho‧mo

### Noun

homo
* gay man
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:homo
* (rare) any gay person
* (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, 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

Possessive forms of homo (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
homoni
homoni
accusative
nom.
homoni
homoni
gen.
homoni
genitive
homoni
homojeni
partitive
homoani
homojani
inessive
homossani
homoissani
elative
homostani
homoistani
illative
homooni
homoihini
adessive
homollani
homoillani
ablative
homoltani
homoiltani
allative
homolleni
homoilleni
essive
homonani
homoinani
translative
homokseni
homoikseni
abessive
homottani
homoittani
instructive
comitative
—homoineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
homosi
homosi
accusative
nom.
homosi
homosi
gen.
homosi
genitive
homosi
homojesi
partitive
homoasi
homojasi
inessive
homossasi
homoissasi
elative
homostasi
homoistasi
illative
homoosi
homoihisi
adessive
homollasi
homoillasi
ablative
homoltasi
homoiltasi
allative
homollesi
homoillesi
essive
homonasi
homoinasi
translative
homoksesi
homoiksesi
abessive
homottasi
homoittasi
instructive
comitative
—homoinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
homomme
homomme
accusative
nom.
homomme
homomme
gen.
homomme
genitive
homomme
homojemme
partitive
homoamme
homojamme
inessive
homossamme
homoissamme
elative
homostamme
homoistamme
illative
homoomme
homoihimme
adessive
homollamme
homoillamme
ablative
homoltamme
homoiltamme
allative
homollemme
homoillemme
essive
homonamme
homoinamme
translative
homoksemme
homoiksemme
abessive
homottamme
homoittamme
instructive
comitative
—homoinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
homonne
homonne
accusative
nom.
homonne
homonne
gen.
homonne
genitive
homonne
homojenne
partitive
homoanne
homojanne
inessive
homossanne
homoissanne
elative
homostanne
homoistanne
illative
homoonne
homoihinne
adessive
homollanne
homoillanne
ablative
homoltanne
homoiltanne
allative
homollenne
homoillenne
essive
homonanne
homoinanne
translative
homoksenne
homoiksenne
abessive
homottanne
homoittanne
instructive
comitative
—homoinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
homonsa
homonsa
accusative
nom.
homonsa
homonsa
gen.
homonsa
genitive
homonsa
homojensa
partitive
homoaan homoansa
homojaan homojansa
inessive
homossaan homossansa
homoissaan homoissansa
elative
homostaan homostansa
homoistaan homoistansa
illative
homoonsa
homoihinsa
adessive
homollaan homollansa
homoillaan homoillansa
ablative
homoltaan homoltansa
homoiltaan homoiltansa
allative
homolleen homollensa
homoilleen homoillensa
essive
homonaan homonansa
homoinaan homoinansa
translative
homokseen homoksensa
homoikseen homoiksensa
abessive
homottaan homottansa
homoittaan homoittansa
instructive
comitative
—homoineen homoinensa :

#### Derived terms

* homoilla
* homostella
* homotella
* homous
* homppeli
* erihomo
* homoavioliitto
* homobaari
* homofobia
* homoikoni
* homokammo
* homoliitto
* homomies
* homopari
* homopoika
* homopropaganda
* homorummutus
* homoseksi
* homotutka
* julkihomo
* kaappihomo
* normaalihomo

#### Related terms

* homoeroottinen
* homoseksuaali
* homoseksuaalinen
* homoseksuaalisuus
* homoseksualismi
* homoseksualisti

### See also

* miehimys

### Further reading

* “homo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

## Franco-Provençal
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin homō.

### Noun

homo m (plural homos) (ORB, broad)
* man
    Coordinate term: fèna (“woman”)

#### Derived terms

* homâjo

### References

* homme in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* homo in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

## French
### Etymology

Clipping of homosexuel.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

homo m or f by sense (plural homos)
* gay (homosexual person, especially male)

### Adjective

homo (plural homos)
* gay, homo

### Further reading

* “homo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Ido
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈho.mo/

### Noun

homo (plural homi)
* human, man

#### Antonyms

* animalo (“animal”)

#### Derived terms

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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From English homo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ho.mo/
* Hyphenation: ho‧mo

### Noun

homo (plural homo-homo)
* (colloquial, offensive) gay; homosexual

#### Synonyms

* maho (slang)

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɔ.mo/
* Rhymes: -ɔmo
* Hyphenation: hò‧mo

### Noun

homo m (plural homini)
* (obsolete) Obsolete spelling of omo.
** man, person
*** c. 1226, Francis of Assisi, Cantico delle creature [Canticle of the Creatures]‎, page 2:Laudato si misignore per sora nostra morte corporale, da la quale nullu homo vivente poskapparePraised be you, my Lord, through our sister Bodily Death, from which no living person can escape.
*** 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 64–66; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Quando viddi custui nel gran diserto Miserere di me gridai ad lui qual che tu sii o ombra o homo certoWhen I saw him in the vast desert, I cried unto him "Have pity on me, whichever you are, or shadow or real man!"

## Latin
### Etymology

From earlier hemō, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ (“earthling”), from *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”), whence Latin humus. Cognates include Old Lithuanian žmuõ (“man”), Gothic 𐌲𐌿𐌼𐌰 (guma) and Old English guma (“man”) (whence English gome). See also nēmō (“no one”), from *ne hemō.
The phenomenon of a derivational relationship between the words for both earth and man is also seen in Semitic languages: Hebrew אָדָם (adám, “man”), אֲדָמָה (adamá, “soil”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈho.moː/, [ˈhɔmoː] or IPA: /ˈho.mo/, [ˈhɔmɔ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈo.mo/, [ˈɔːmo]
* 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

homō m (genitive hominis); third declension
* a human being, man, human, person
    Homō hominī lupus est (proverb).Man is a wolf to man.
    Hominēs, dum docent, discunt.While teaching, people also learn themselves.
** 163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos [The Self-Tormentor]:Homŏ sum, hūmānī nihil ā mĕ aliēnum putō.I'm a human being, and nothing that's human is alien to me.
** 67 or 49 BC, Fragmentum Atestinum :researchgate.comqvod·ad·hominem·libervm·liberamve·pertinere·deicatvr(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 66 BCE, Cicero, Pro Cluentio 199:At quae māter! […] cuius ea stultitia est, ut eam nēmō hominem appellāre possit!And what a mother! […] whose stupidity is such that nobody would even call her human!
** ?, Pseudo-Remmius Palaemon, Ars 536.9: […] exceptīs paucīs masculīnī generis, quōrum numerō sunt ōrdo, ligō, et iis quae commūnis generis sunt, ut homō, nēmō, būbō et mangō. […] except […] and those that are of common gender, such as homō, nēmō, būbō and mangō.
* a male human being, man
** Paulus, Digesta Iustiniani 48.19.38.5.3:Quī abortiōnis aut amātōris pōculum dant […] sī eō mulier aut homō perierit […] Those who poison someone with an abortion or love potion […] if it causes the death of the woman or man […]
* (address) man, fellow, mate, pal, bud, partner, dude (a form of address to male peers, especially by another male)
** 160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 111, (Robert Kauer and W. M. Lindsay (eds), 1958):prō Iuppiter, tŭ homō adigi' mĕ ad īnsāniam!For Jupiter's sake, man, you're driving me insane!
* (address) used in the vocative expression "mi homo" as a form of address to a man by a woman
** c. 203 BCE, Plautus, Cistellaria 723:Mi homo et mea mulier, vos saluto.My man and my woman, I greet you.
* (Medieval Latin) husband

#### Usage notes

* Homō has the basic sense of "human being" and is often used generically to mean “Man” or “men” in the broad sense of "humanity", encompassing both male and female human beings. It is not typically used to specify or emphasize male as opposed to female sex: the usual terms to express “man” in the sense “male” are vir (“adult male human being”) or mās (“male”). There are rare examples in early Latin of homō being used in contrast to an explicitly female term such as mulier (“woman”), such as Plautus Cistellaria 723, but this only becomes frequent in late Latin.
* When referring to specific human beings, homō is more often applied to male rather than female persons in the corpus of ancient Latin texts. For Romans, the use of homō versus vir when referring to a male human being was influenced by the differing social connotations of the two words: vir tends to be reserved as a positive designation for men of the Roman upper class, whereas the more generic term homō is frequently used to refer to men of lower social orders or foreigners, and also to refer to upper class men in contexts where the positive connotations of vir would be out of place. For example, homō rather than vir tends to be used by Cicero in connection with pejorative adjectives. There seems to have been a similar distinction in social connotation between mulier (“woman”), the general word for 'woman' that could be used in neutral or negative contexts, and fēmina (“female, woman”), which had positive, aristocratic overtones when used as a designation for a woman.
* Homō is 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 German Mensch, Russian челове́к (čelovék)) (Charisius, GL I, p.102.20–103.1 = pp.130.19–31.2 B.).

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Hyponyms

* mulier (“adult human woman”)
* vir (“adult human man”) (with connotations of freeborn status and possession of masculine virtues)
* fēmina (“female; woman”) (in Republican Latin, used especially to refer to women of social rank, functioning as a female counterpart of vir and a more respectful synonym of mulier)
* mās (“male”), masculus
* puella (“girl”)
* puer (“boy”)
* adulēscēns m or f (“adolescent”)
* iuvenis m or f (“youth”)
* senex m or f (“aged person; old man; old woman”)

#### Derived terms

* homō hominī lupus
* homō nūllīus colōris
* homullus (diminutive)
* homunciō (diminutive)
* homunculus (diminutive)
* hūmānitās
* hūmānus
* sēmihomō

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: om
** Istro-Romanian: om
** Megleno-Romanian: om, uom
** Romanian: om
* Dalmatian:
** jomno
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: omu
** Istriot: omo
** Italian: uomo, omo
** Neapolitan: ommo
** Sicilian: omu, òminu
* Padanian:
** Emilian: òmen, òm
** Ligurian: òmmo
** Lombard: òmm, òmen
** Piedmontese: òm, òmon
** Romagnol: òm, òman
** Friulian: omp, om
** Romansch: um
** Venetan: omo, òmeno
* Northern Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: homo, on
** Old French: home (see there for further descendants)
* Southern Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: home
** Old Occitan: ome, hom, home, om, omne
*** Occitan: òme, ome
* Sardinian:
** òmine
* Ibero-Romance:
** Old Navarro-Aragonese: hombre, ombre, ome, omme, homme, uamne (11th century, Glosas Emilianenses)
*** Aragonese: ombre
** Old Leonese: ome
*** Asturian: home
*** Leonese: home
*** Mirandese: home
** Old Galician-Portuguese: ome, home, omen, omẽe
*** Fala: homi
*** Galician: home
*** Portuguese: homem (see there for further descendants)
** Old Spanish: omne, ome, om̃e, homne
*** Ladino:
    Hebrew script: אומברי
    Latin script: ombre
*** Spanish: hombre, honbre, ombre, onbre (obsolete)
**** Chavacano: hombre
**** → English: hombre
**** → French: hombre
***** → English: ombre
**** → Papiamentu: hòmber
* Borrowings:
** → English: homo; argumentum ad hominem, ad hominem
** → Esperanto: homo
*** → Ido: homo
** → Interlingua: homine
** → Translingual: Homo

### References

* ↑ Santoro L'Hoir, Francesca (1992) The Rhetoric of Gender Terms: 'man', 'woman', and the Portrayal of Character in Latin Prose, page 159
* ↑ Adams, J. N. (1972) “Latin Words for 'Woman' and 'Wife'”, in Glotta, volume 50, number 3./4., page 247
* ↑ Santoro L'Hoir (1992), page 2
* ↑ Santoro L'Hoir (1992), page 10
* ↑ Santoro L'Hoir (1992), pages 32-33

### Further reading

* “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. our contemporaries; men of our time: homines qui nunc sunt (opp. qui tunc fuerunt) our contemporaries; men of our time: homines huius aetatis, nostrae memoriae that is the way of the world; such is life: sic vita hominum est the position of the lower classes: condicio ac fortuna hominum infimi generis what am I to do with this fellow: quid huic homini (also hoc homine) faciam? Fortune makes men shortsighted, infatuates them: fortuna caecos homines efficit, animos occaecat my most intimate acquaintance: homo intimus, familiarissimus mihi to be in every one's mouth: in ore omnium or omnibus (hominum or hominibus, but only mihi, tibi, etc.) esse to be a subject for gossip: in sermonem hominum venire the common opinion, the general idea: existimatio hominum, omnium a devotee of pleasure; a self-indulgent man: homo voluptarius (Tusc. 2. 7. 18) many men, many minds: quot homines, tot sententiae within the memory of man: post hominum memoriam within the memory of man: post homines natos learned, scientific, literary men: homines litterarum studiosi learned, scientific, literary men: homines docti a man of learning; a scholar; a savant: vir or homo doctus, litteratus for a Roman he is decidedly well educated: sunt in illo, ut in homine Romano, multae litterae (De Sen. 4. 12) to civilise men, a nation: homines, gentem a fera agrestique vita ad humanum cultum civilemque deducere (De Or. 1. 8. 33) an accomplished dialectician: homo in dialecticis versatissimus moral science; ethics: philosophia, in qua de bonis rebus et malis, deque hominum vita et moribus disputatur a conscientious historian: homo in historia diligens a singer, member of a choir: (homo) symphoniacus a wit; a joker: (homo) ridiculus (Plaut. Stich. 1. 3. 21) a man of no self-control, self-indulgent: homo impotens sui a man of no self-control, self-indulgent: homo effrenatus, intemperans a moral (immoral) man: homo bene (male) moratus a depraved, abandoned character: homo perditus a man of character, with a strong personality: vir constans, gravis (opp. homo inconstans, levis) to sacrifice human victims: pro victimis homines immolare to unite isolated individuals into a society: dissipatos homines in (ad) societatem vitae convocare (Tusc. 1. 25. 62) to shun society: hominum coetus, congressus fugere business-men: homines negotii (always in sing.) gerentes an experienced politician: homo in re publica exercitatus a parvenu (a man no member of whose family has held curule office): homo novus people of every rank: homines omnis generis people of every rank and age: homines omnium ordinum et aetatum one of the people: homo plebeius, de plebe a popular man: aurae popularis homo (Liv. 42. 30) public opinion: existimatio populi, hominum to be always considering what people think: multum communi hominum opinioni tribuere men of sound opinions: homines graves (opp. leves) a democrat: homo popularis a man who genuinely wishes the people's good: homo vere popularis (Catil. 4. 5. 9) a democratic leader: homo florens in populari ratione revolutionists: homines seditiosi, turbulenti or novarum rerum cupidi

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

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

### Adjective

homo (indeclinable)
* homosexual, gay

### Noun

homo m (definite singular homoen, indefinite plural homoer, definite plural homoene)
* a homosexual or gay (male homosexual person).

#### Synonyms

* homofil
* homse
* soper

#### Derived terms

* homodager
* homoekteskap
* homogutt
* homomarsj
* homoparade

#### Related terms

* bi
* homofili
* homoseksualitet
* lesbe
* lesbisk

### 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)
* homosexual, gay

### Noun

homo m (definite singular homoen, indefinite plural homoar, definite plural homoane)
* a homosexual or gay (male homosexual person).

#### Synonyms

* homofil
* homse
* sopar

#### Derived terms

* homoekteskap
* homomarsj
* homoparade

#### Related terms

* bi
* homofili
* homoseksualitet
* lesbe
* lesbisk

### References

* “homo” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈõ.mu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈõ.mu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈo.mo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈɔ.mɔ/
* Hyphenation: ho‧mo

### Adjective

homo (invariable)
* (derogatory) homosexual (involving or relating to homosexuals)
    Synonyms: homossexual, gay

## Romanian
### Etymology

Clipping of homosexual.

### Noun

homo m (plural homo)
* (slang) gay

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Adjective

homo (invariable)
* homo (homosexual)

### Further reading

* “homo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Noun

homo c or n
* (colloquial, chiefly derogatory) a homo (homosexual)
    Synonym: bög

### Adjective

homo
* (colloquial, only used predicatively) homosexual
    Synonym: homosexuell

### See also

* bi
* hetero

### References

* homo in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* homo in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* homo in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## West Frisian
### Etymology

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### Noun

homo c (plural homo's)
* homosexual, gay person

#### Derived terms

* homorjochten

#### Further reading

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