The story
- Latin · derived fromīnsipiēns“foolish”
- English todayHomo insipiens
From Homo sapiens (“the human species”, literally “wise man”), replacing sapiēns (“wise”) with Latin īnsipiēns (“foolish”).
Words from the same roots
Latinīnsipiēns all →
insipient
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.