HOMO

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HomO

#REDIRECT Swedish Ombudsman against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation

HomO

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Homo

Homo can refer to multiple things: * The Latin word for ''man'' or ''human'' ** The genus ''Homo (genus)'' (see also hominid) * The Greek (language) word for ''same'', usually as prefix in compound words, e.g. homonym * A term for homosexuals, often derogatory. *(in all capital letters: HOMO) an acronym for Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital, see: HOMO/LUMO * HomO: the short form for the Swedish Ombudsman against Discrimination on Grounds of Sexual Orientation.

Homo

'Homo' is Latin for man, but where does the use of 'homo' as 'the same' come from (i.e. homozygous, homosexual, homogenous, etc)?--BlackGriffen :A quick web search suggests that the second usage is from greek. Yes. Greek ''homos'' is cognate with English ''same''. It's unrelated to Latin ''homo''. --user:Zundark, 2001 Dec 16 I doubt that the Latin "homo" is unrelated. Consider that men formulated the language. One way to refer to other men is "the same [''as myself'']". Just speculation, though.--BlackGriffen ** Not sure about whether men formulated the language. Som,etimes I think that without women, we men would still be grunting and pointing.:) Men may have written the language more in the past, but we certainly didnt invent it. --User:Mishac 07:27, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC) Latin ''homo'' is apparently related to ''humus'' ("ground" or "earth"), so the meaning is something like "creature of the earth". The Latin words from the same Indo-European source as Greek ''homos'' and English ''same'' are things like ''simul'' and ''similis''. --user:Zundark, 2001 Dec 16 ---- Latin (language) redirects to Latin, so might as well use the Latin link Homo (genus) links to an article that mentions 7 'homo' species, not only ''Homo sapiens sapiens'' and ''Homo neanderthalensis''. Just follow the link and read all about them. In this disamb page it is irrelevant to name only the two. Also, the link Neanderthal strangely leads to an article about the ''Homo neanderthalensis'', not to an article about the Neanderthal (valley of the Neander river) in Germany, while the link Homo neanderthalensis redirects to the same Neanderthal article - this is very confusing. == HomO == You think that's confusing, take a look at the spelling HomO, that I just added. This is not a joke (though I think it's kind of funny, and so did the Swedish media). Please follow the external link I provided, if you don't believe me. I've never edited a disambiguation page before, so please excuse me if anything's inappropriate. I'm thinking of doing a short article on HomO for this page to link to, and then the text here can be a lot shorter.User:Bishonen 18:02, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC) :I think you did just fine. It would be a good idea to create an article for it, though, then reduce the text in the disambig. - User:UtherSRG 18:20, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC) :Yeah, "Homo" means mainly homosexual, in swedish, as well in english. That HomO example is quite funny! ::Thanks, UtherSRG. Done. :-) User:Bishonen 22:02, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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