humi

humi

See also: Húmi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *homei, locative of humus (“ground, soil”). Ancient Greek χαμαί (khamaí, “on the ground”) is the same formation.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhu.miː/, [ˈhʊmiː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.mi/, [ˈuːmi]

Adverb

humī (not comparable)

1. on the ground.
2. to the ground.

Noun

humī f

1. genitive singular of humus
2. locative singular of humus
3. nominative plural of humus
4. vocative plural of humus

Related terms

• humilis
• humilitās
• humiliter
• humō
• humus

References

• “humi”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “humi”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• humi in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to fall on the ground: humi procumbere
    
  • to throw any one to the ground: humi prosternere aliquem
    
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

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Uneapa

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *kumi (“beard, chin”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kumi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣumi/

Noun

humi

1. lips

Further reading

• Lynch, John (December 2002), “The Proto-Oceanic Labiovelars: Some New Observations”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 41, issue 2, pages 310-362
• Ross, Malcolm D. (2016), Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 5, People: body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, OCLC 40267977; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor,, (please provide a date or year)