Where does “unhumanize” come from?
unhumanize (English) comes from English humanize, from English Human, from Middle English humayne, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, from Latin hūmānus, from Latin homō, from Old Latin hemō.
unhumanize (English): To strip of humanity; to dehumanize
Definitions
- To strip of humanity; to dehumanize
Ancestry of “unhumanize”, step by step
unhumanize traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English humanize
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | humanize | To make human; to give or cause to have the... |
| 2 | English | Human | The language supposedly spoken by humans |
| 3 | Middle English | humayne | human |
| 4 | Middle French | humain | human; human being; human |
| 5 | Old French | humain | — |
| 6 | Latin | hūmānus | human (of man, people) |
| 7 | Latin | homō | human, person, man |
| 8 | Old Latin | hemō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | hemō | man |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰmṓ | earthling |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰéǵʰōm | earth |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōm | emphatic suffix or postpositive particle |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -mi | — |
via English un
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | un | One |