semihomo

From sēmi- (half) +‎ homō (man).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈseː.mɔ.moː], [ˈseː.mɔ.mɔ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [seˈmiː.o.mo]
• In Classical Latin poetry, the word is found in the forms sēmihominēs and sēmihominis, which are always scanned as heavy-light-light-heavy quadrisyllables, implying pronunciations with elision of the first -i-.

sēmihomō m (genitive sēmihominis); third declension

1. a half-human, half-beast

Third-declension noun.

• sēmifer
• sēmimās

• “semihomo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “semihomo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “semihomo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.