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- Latin · borrowed fromhomō faber“man the maker”
- English todayhomo faber
Borrowed from Latin homō faber (“man the maker”, literally “ingenious man”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
homo faber
Today it means: The human being viewed as a tool maker and user, or having evolutionarily reached the stage of tool use. Full definition →
Latin homō faber