Etymology

hominid

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Today it means: Any human, the only members of the family Hominidae as traditionally defined. Full definition →

First used 1960sLatin homō ← Proto-Italic *hemō ← Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeǵʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰéǵʰōm
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ǵʰmṓ
  4. Proto-Italic*hemō
  5. Latinhemō
  6. Latinhomō
  7. English todayhominid

Borrowed from Translingual Hominidae.

First known use, by meaning

  • from 1960s Any anthropoid of the taxonomic family Hominidae, which includes all the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans) as well as humans.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.