homunculus

• homonculus

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /həˈmʌŋkjələs/, /hoʊˈmʌŋkjələs/

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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 of use of this term, see Citations:homunculus.

• cortical homunculus

• homo
• homunculine

• manikin

• homunculus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• homunculus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• homunculus at OneLook Dictionary Search

From homō, hominis +‎ -culus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hoˈmun.ku.lus/, [hɔˈmʊŋ.kʊ.ɫʊs]

homunculus m (genitive homunculī); second declension

1. diminutive of homō (“man”).
2. a little or weak man, homunculus

Second declension.

• 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