Etymology

Hetero sapiens

Today it means: Collectively, straight people. Full definition →

translingual Homo sapiens
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  1. translingual · derived fromHomo sapiens
  2. English todayHetero sapiens

From hetero (short for heterosexual) + translingual Homo sapiens, as if Homo (“the name of the taxonomic genus within the family Hominidae people are placed in”) were short for homosexual, while in truth it derives from Latin homō (“human being, man”).

Words from the same roots

translingualHomo sapiens all →

sapienssapien

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.