Where does “humanidade” come from?
humanidade (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese humanidade, from Latin humanitas, from Latin hūmānus, from Latin homō, from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Italic hemō, from Proto-Indo-European ǵʰmṓ, from Proto-Indo-European dʰéǵʰōm.
humanidade (Galician): humanity, mankind
Definitions
- humanity, mankind
Ancestry of “humanidade”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Portuguese | humanidade | — |
| 2 | Latin | humanitas | humanity, human nature; humaneness, humane... |
| 3 | Latin | hūmānus | human (of man, people) |
| 4 | Latin | homō | human, person, man |
| 5 | Old Latin | hemō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | hemō | man |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰmṓ | earthling |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰéǵʰōm | earth |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōm | emphatic suffix or postpositive particle |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -mi | — |