The corpus record — Latin

semihomo

semihomo · m

a half-man

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Where it lives

Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

sēmĭ-hŏmo — Lewis & Short

sēmĭ-hŏmo, ĭnis, m.,

I a half-man, i. e. half man and half beast.

I Lit.: Centauri, Ov. M. 12, 536 (for which, semiferi, id. ib. 12, 406 al.; v. semifer, I.): mandragoras (because formed below like a man), Col. poët. 10, 19.—

II Trop., half-human, i. e. half-wild, half-savage, = semifer, II.: Cacus, Verg. A. 8, 194 (for which, semifer, id. ib. 8, 267): Nasamones, Sil. 11, 180.

In the wild

semihominis Vergil, Aeneid 8.194
semihomines Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.536
semihomines Silius Italicus, Punica 11.180

Where it came from

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