Meanings
nounprotohominid (plural protohominids)
plural protohominids
- Any of several primitive animals that were evolutionary ancestors of the hominids.
Although the ethological studies of chimpanzees cannot present us with a picture of the life of the protohominids, they can give us some insights into what these conditions may have been like.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 193
adjectiveprotohominid (not comparable)
- not comparableOf or pertaining to these creatures.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*per-der.?
- Proto-Indo-European*pér
- Proto-Indo-European*pró
- Ancient Greekπρό (pró)
- Ancient Greekπρῶτος (prôtos)
- Ancient Greekπρωτο- (prōto-)
- Englishproto-
- Englishhominid
- Englishprotohominid
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