home
See also: Home, homẽ, home-, and Hô-me
English
Etymology
From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-.
cognates
Germanic cognates: see *haimaz.Cognate with Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: hōm, IPA(key): /(h)əʊm/
- (US) enPR: hōm, IPA(key): /hoʊm/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊm
- Homophones: Home, hom, holm, heaume, holme
Noun
home (plural homes)
- A dwelling.
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299, John xx:[10], folio clj, recto:
- And the diſciples went awaye agayne vnto their awne home.
- 1808, John Dryden, Walter Scott (editor), The Works of John Dryden:
- Thither for ease and soft repose we come: / Home is the sacred refuge of our life; / Secured from all approaches, but a wife.
- 1822, John Howard Payne, Home! Sweet Home!:
- Home! home! sweet, sweet home! / There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 132:
- If we now say that "woman's place is in the home," it is not because men put her there, but because the home became the capitol of women's mysteries.
- 2013 June 29, “High and wet”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 28:
- Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
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- The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.
- 2004, Jean Harrison, Home:
- The rights listed in the UNCRC cover all areas of children's lives such as their right to have a home and their right to be educated.
- Does she still live at home? - No, she moved out and got an apartment when she was 18, but she still lives in the city.
- 2004, Jean Harrison, Home:
- The abiding place of the affections, especially of the domestic affections.
- 1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan, canto III:
- He enter’d in the house—his home no more, / For without hearts there is no home; […]
- 1821, George Gordon Byron, Don Juan, canto III:
- A house that has been made home-like, to suit the comfort of those who live there.
- It's what you bring into a house that makes it a home
- A place of refuge, rest or care; an asylum.
- a home for outcasts
- a home for the blind
- a veterans' home
- Instead of a pet store, get your new dog from the local dogs’ home.
- (by extension) The grave; the final rest; also, the native and eternal dwelling place of the soul.
- 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Ecclesiastes 12:5:
- […] because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: […]
- 1769, King James Bible, Oxford Standard text, Ecclesiastes 12:5:
- One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.
- One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
- 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches:
- Visiting these famous localities, and a great many others, I hope that I do not compromise my American patriotism by acknowledging that I was often conscious of a fervent hereditary attachment to the native soil of our forefathers, and felt it to be our own Old Home.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:
- So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- 1980, Peter Allen, song, I Still Call Australia Home:
- I've been to cities that never close down / From New York to Rio and old London town / But no matter how far or how wide I roam / I still call Australia home.
- 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches:
- The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
- the home of the pine
- 1706, Matthew Prior, An Ode, Humbly Inscribed to the Queen, on the ẛucceẛs of Her Majeẛty's Arms, 1706, as republished in 1795, Robert Anderson (editor), The Works of the British Poets:
- […] Flandria, by plenty made the home of war, / Shall weep her crime, and bow to Charles r'estor'd, […]
- 1849, Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H.:
- Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, / Nor other thought her mind admits / But, he was dead, and there he sits, / And he that brought him back is there.
- 2013 September 7, “Nodding acquaintance”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852:
- Africa is home to so many premier-league diseases (such as AIDS, childhood diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis) that those in lower divisions are easily ignored.
- A focus point.
- (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- The object of Sorry! is to get all four of your pawns to your home.
- (baseball) Home plate.
- (lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent’s goal; also, the player.
- (Internet) The landing page of a website; the site's homepage.
- (music, informal) The chord at which a melody starts and to which it can resolve.
- (board games) The ultimate point aimed at in a progress; the goal.
- (computing) Clipping of home directory.
Synonyms
- (one’s own dwelling place): tenement, house, dwelling, abode, domicile, residence
- ((baseball) home plate): home base
Derived terms
Terms derived from home (noun)
- a house is not a home
- a man's home is his castle
- America at home
- an Englishman's home is his castle
- at home
- at-home card
- at-homeness
- away from home
- back home
- boys' home
- bring home
- bring home the bacon
- broken home
- cage home
- care home
- charity begins at home
- children's home
- Chinese home run
- close to home
- come home by weeping cross
- come home to roost
- cottage home
- detention home
- direct-to-home
- don't try this at home
- down home
- down-home
- drive home
- eat someone out of house and home
- eco-home
- eventide home
- fall home
- family home evening
- far-from-home
- forever home
- foster home
- from home
- funeral home
- ghost home
- go big or go home
- go hard or go home
- group home
- hammer home
- harvest home
- have a safe trip home
- hearth and home
- hit a home run
- hit home
- hit too close to home
- holiday home
- home advantage
- home-along
- home-and-away
- home-and-home
- home appliance
- home automation
- home-brewn
- homebuilder
- home care
- home carer
- homecation
- home child
- home cinema
- home computer
- home console
- home country
- home county
- home delivery
- Home Depot
- home directory
- home duty
- home ec
- home education
- home equity
- home field advantage
- home fries
- home from home
- home fry
- home game
- home-grown
- home haunt
- home help
- home ice
- home improvement
- home in
- home inspection
- home inspector
- home invader
- home invasion
- home is where the heart is
- home is where you hang your hat
- home key
- home language
- home loan
- homely
- home-made
- home-making
- home movie
- home nation
- homeness
- home note
- home office
- home open
- homeowner
- home ownership
- homeownership
- home page
- home phone
- home planet
- home plate
- home row
- home rule class
- home run
- home school
- home-schooler
- home schooler
- home screen
- Home Secretary
- home set
- home-set
- homesewn
- home-sewn
- home shopping
- home-sickness
- homesickness
- home side
- home sign
- home skillet
- home slice
- home-speaking
- home stand
- home state
- home straight
- home stretch
- home study
- home sweet home
- home teach
- home teacher
- home teaching
- home team
- hometown
- home town
- home training
- home wrecker
- home zone
- homie
- homish
- in-home
- it takes a heap of living to make a house a home
- it takes a heap o' livin' to make a house a home
- it takes a lot of living to make a house a home
- keep the home fires burning
- leave home
- Little League home run
- long home
- make oneself at home
- make yourself at home
- make yourselves at home
- mobile home
- mobile home park
- motor-home
- motor home
- Mountain Home
- not at home to
- nothing to write home about
- not worth writing home about
- nursing home
- old folks' home
- old people's home
- out of house and home
- parental home
- pay home
- phone home
- press home
- ram home
- remand home
- rest home
- retirement home
- romp home
- second home
- show home
- smart home
- something to write home about
- spec home
- starter home
- stately home
- stay at home
- stay-at-home
- stay-at-home dad
- stay-at-home order
- Sweet Home
- sweet home Alabama
- take-home
- take-home pay
- take-home vehicle
- take one's ball and go home
- take one's bat and ball and go home
- take one's football and go home
- the chickens come home to roost
- the lights are on but nobody's home
- the lights are on but no one's home
- there's no place like home
- till the cow come home
- 'til the cows come home
- to write home about
- tract home
- tumble home
- until the cows come home
- vacation home
- welcome home
- welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk
- when it's at home
- workhome
- working from home
- you can't go home again
Translations
house or structure in which someone lives
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someone’s native land
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childhood or parental home
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place of the affections
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habitat
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place of refuge or rest
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goal (sports)
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home directory — See also translations at home directory
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Verb
home (third-person singular simple present homes, present participle homing, simple past and past participle homed)
- (of animals, transitive) To return to its owner.
- The dog homed.
- (always with "in on", transitive) To seek or aim for something.
- The missile was able to home in on the target.
- 2008 July, Ewen Callaway, New Scientist:
- Much like a heat-seeking missile, a new kind of particle homes in on the blood vessels that nourish aggressive cancers, before unleashing a cell-destroying drug.
Translations
to home ("in on")
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Adjective
home (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to one’s dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign [from 13th c.]
- home manufactures
- home comforts
- (now rare, except in phrases) That strikes home; direct, pointed. [from 17th c.]
- a home truth
- (obsolete) Personal, intimate. [17th–19th c.]
- 1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 91:
- I hardly knew what I answered him, but, by degrees I tranquillised, as I found he forbore distressing me any further, by such Home strokes […].
- 1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 91:
- (sports) Relating to the home team (the team at whose venue a game is played). [from 19th c.]
- the home end, home advantage, home supporters
- Antonyms: away, road, visitor
Derived terms
Terms derived from home (adjective)
- home base
- home brew
- Home Counties
- home economics
- home farm
- home front
- home ground
- Home Guard
- home lot
- home market
- home movie
- home page
- home port
- home plate
- home range
- home remedy
- home rule
- home ruler
- home run
- home signal
- home stretch
- home theater
- home thrust
- home truth
- home turf
- home video
- homeworking, home working
Adverb
home (not comparable)
- To one's home
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location
- go home
- come home
- carry someone home
- 1863, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches,
- He made no complaint of his ill-fortune, but only repeated in a quiet voice, with a pathos of which he was himself evidently unconscious, "I want to get home to Ninety-second Street, Philadelphia."
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619, page 16:
- Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
- To one's place of birth
- To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length
- She drove the nail home
- ram a cartridge home
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
- Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home: […]
- 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda
- Eventually she managed to slide the lid of the pencil-box right home and the newt was hers. Then, on second thoughts, she opened the lid just the tiniest fraction so that the creature could breathe.
- (Internet) To the home page
- Click here to go home.
- To one's place of residence or one's customary or official location
- At or in one's place of residence or one's customary or official location; at home
- Everyone's gone to watch the game; there's nobody home.
- I'm home!
- To a full and intimate degree; to the heart of the matter; fully, directly.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral,
- I do now publish my Essays; which of all my other works have been most current : for that, as it seems, they come home to men's business and bosoms.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:
- How home the charge reaches us, has been made out by ẛhewing with what high impudence ẛome amongẛt us defend sin, […]
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter LXVII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], OCLC 13631815:
- Her treatment of you, you say, does no credit either to her education or fine sense. Very home put, truly!
- 1625, Francis Bacon, dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, in Essays Civil and Moral,
- (UK, soccer) into the goal
- 2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February,
- Walker was penalised for a picking up a Gerry Taggart backpass and from the resulting free-kick, Keane fired home after Johnnie Jackson's initial effort was blocked.
- 2004, Tottenham 4-4 Leicester, BBC Sport: February,
- (nautical) into the right, proper or stowed position
- sails sheeted home
Usage notes
- Home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc.
Synonyms
- (to home): homeward
Derived terms
Terms derived from the adverb home
- be home
- bring home
- come home
- go home
- haul home the sheets of a sail
- out-and-home
- return home
- till the cows come home
- turn home
Related terms
Terms related to "home"
- homing
- homeless
- homely
- homeowner
- homestead
- homey, homy
- home away from home
- home and dry
- home and hosed
- home free
- parental home
- hometown
Translations
at home
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homewards
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References
- home at OneLook Dictionary Search
- home in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- home in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
Further reading
home on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Mohe, hemo-
Asturian
Etymology
From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.
Noun
home m (plural homes)
- man
- L'home equí ye'l fíu la María ― This man here is María's son
- person
- husband
Synonyms
- (person): persona
- (husband): esposu, maríu
Derived terms
- home del sacu
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Catalan home~hom, from Latin hominem, homō (“human being”), from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ (“earthling”).
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.mə/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.me/
Audio (Valencian) (file)
Noun
home m (plural homes or hòmens)
- man
- husband
- Synonyms: cònjuge, espòs, marit
Antonyms
woman
- dona
wife
- cònjuge
- costella (figuratively)
- dona
- esposa
- muller
Hypernyms
spouse
- cònjuge
Derived terms
- home llop
- homenet
Related terms
- prohom
Further reading
- “home” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “home”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “home” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “home” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Classical Nahuatl
Numeral
ho̊me
- (Codex Magliabechiano) Obsolete spelling of ōme
Esperanto
Etymology
From homo.
Adverb
home
- humanly; in a human fashion
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *homeh, from earlier *šomeš, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *swammaz or earlier Pre-Germanic. Cognate to Karelian homeh, Veps homeh.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhomeˣ/, [ˈho̞me̞(ʔ)]
- Rhymes: -ome
- Syllabification(key): ho‧me
Noun
home
- mildew, mold
- Tämä leipä on homeessa.
- This bread is moldy
- (literally, “This bread is in mold.”)
Declension
| Inflection of home (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | home | homeet | |
| genitive | homeen | homeiden homeitten | |
| partitive | hometta | homeita | |
| illative | homeeseen | homeisiin homeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | home | homeet | |
| accusative | nom. | home | homeet |
| gen. | homeen | ||
| genitive | homeen | homeiden homeitten | |
| partitive | hometta | homeita | |
| inessive | homeessa | homeissa | |
| elative | homeesta | homeista | |
| illative | homeeseen | homeisiin homeihin | |
| adessive | homeella | homeilla | |
| ablative | homeelta | homeilta | |
| allative | homeelle | homeille | |
| essive | homeena | homeina | |
| translative | homeeksi | homeiksi | |
| instructive | — | homein | |
| abessive | homeetta | homeitta | |
| comitative | — | homeineen | |
| Possessive forms of home (type hame) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | homeeni | homeemme |
| 2nd person | homeesi | homeenne |
| 3rd person | homeensa | |
Anagrams
- hemo
Galician
Home ("man")
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Home ("man")
Alternative forms
- homem (Reintegrationist)
Etymology
From Old Galician and Old Portuguese ome, omẽe, from Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɔ.mɪ]
Audio (file)
Noun
home m (plural homes)
- human; person
- Unha sebe tres anos dura; un can tres sebes; unha mula tres cans; un home tres mulas (proverb)
- A hedge lasts three years; a dog three hedges; a mule three dogs; a person three mules
- mankind
- O home chegou á Lúa en 1969 ― Mankind arrived to the Moon in 1969
- man (adult male)
- Home casado muller é (proverb) ― The Married man is a woman
- male human
- Home pequeno fol de veleno (proverb) ― Small man, skin [bag] of venom
- husband
- Éste é o meu home, Xaquín ― This is my husband, Joachim
Derived terms
- homiño (“little man”)
- lobishome (“werewolf”)
- ricohome (“magnate”)
Interjection
home
- man! (expresses surprise, or mild annoyance)
- -Es o campión do mundo? Contento? -Home!... ― -You're the champion of the world? Are you happy? -Man!... [Of course I'm happy, what kind of question is this?]
Derived terms
- ho
See also
- persoa
References
- “home” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “home” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “home” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “home” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “home” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
- “home” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
Ingrian
Home leivän pääl.
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *homeh. Cognates include Finnish home and Veps homeh.
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈhome/, [ˈho̞me̞]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈhome/, [ˈho̞me̞]
- Rhymes: -ome
- Hyphenation: ho‧me
Noun
home
- mould
Declension
| Declension of home (type 6/lähe, no gradation, gemination) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | home | hommeet |
| genitive | hommeen | hommein |
| partitive | hometta | hommeita |
| illative | hommeesse | hommeisse |
| inessive | hommees | hommeis |
| elative | hommeest | hommeist |
| allative | hommeelle | hommeille |
| adessive | hommeel | hommeil |
| ablative | hommeelt | hommeilt |
| translative | hommeeks | hommeiks |
| essive | hommeenna, hommeen | hommeinna, hommein |
| exessive1) | hommeent | hommeint |
| 1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. | ||
References
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 67
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English home.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈom/, (careful style) /ˈowm/[1][2]
- Rhymes: -om, (careful style) -owm
Noun
home f (invariable)
- (computing) home (initial position of various computing objects)
References
- home in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- home video in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
- ohmè
Leonese
Etymology
From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.
Noun
home m (plural homes)
- man
Further reading
- AEDLL
Middle English
Noun
home (plural homes)
- Alternative form of hom (“home”)
Pronoun
home
- Alternative form of whom (“whom”)
Pronoun
home
- Alternative form of hem (“them”)
Noun
home (plural homes)
- Alternative form of hamme (“enclosure; meadow”)
Noun
home
- Alternative form of hame (“hame (part of a harness)”)
Verb
home (third-person singular simple present hometh, present participle homende, homynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle homed)
- Alternative form of hummen (“to hum”)
Mirandese
Etymology
From Latin homō, hominem, from Proto-Italic *hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰm̥mṓ.
Noun
home m (plural homes)
- man
- husband
Antonyms
- mulhier
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
home (present tense homar, past tense homa, past participle homa, passive infinitive homast, present participle homande, imperative home/hom)
- alternative form of homa (non-standard since 2012)
Old French
Alternative forms
- see hom for alternative nominative singular forms
- homme
- honme
- hume
- onme
- ume
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *(h)omne, Latin hominem, accusative singular of homō. The nominative form hom, om, on, hon derives from the Latin nominative homō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈu.mə/
Noun
home m (oblique plural homes, nominative singular hom, nominative plural home)
(oblique case)
- man (male adult human being)
- man (mankind; Homo sapiens)
- circa 1120, Philippe de Taon, Bestiaire, line 476:
- O HOM de sancte vie, entent que signefie
- O MAN of sacred life, listen to what this means
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- vassal; manservant
Coordinate terms
- fame (“woman”)
Descendants
- Middle French: homme
- French: homme, Homme
- Haitian Creole: lòm
- Karipúna Creole French: uóm
- Louisiana Creole French: n'homme
- Saint Dominican Creole French: n'homme
- Haitian Creole: nonm
- →⇒ English: en homme
- French: on, l'on
- → Esperanto: oni
- → Ido: onu
- → Interlingue: on
- → Esperanto: oni
- French: homme, Homme
- Norman: houme (France), haomme (Guernsey), houmme (Jersey)
- Picard: onme
- Walloon: ome
References
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (homme)
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (homme, supplement)
- home on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “homo”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 455 (contains a reference to the nominative singular forms hom, huem and om)
Old Occitan
Noun
home m (oblique plural homes, nominative singular hom, nominative plural home)
- Alternative form of ome
Old Portuguese
Noun
home m
- Alternative form of ome
Portuguese
Etymology
Denasalization of homem.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈõ.mi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈo.me/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈɔ.m(ɨ)/
Noun
home m (plural homes)
- (nonstandard) Alternative form of homem