Homunculusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• homonculus

語源

Borrowed from Latin homunculus, from homō (“man”) +‎ -culus (diminutive suffix).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /hɒˈmʌŋk.jʊ.ləs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /həˈmʌŋk.jə.ləs/, /hoʊˈmʌŋk.jə.ləs/

名詞

homunculus (plural homunculi or homunculuses)

1. A miniature man, once imagined by spermists to be present in human sperm.
   • 1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling:

     Ser Perth stayed near him most of the time now. The man was obviously worried, but tried not to show it. "We've managed to get some testosterone from a blond homunculus," he reported. "That should put you on your feet in no time. Don't worry, young man we'll keep you vivified somehow until the Sign changes." But he didn't sound convincing.

   • 2025 May 7, Nina Siegal, “A Rarely Seen Angel With a Lesson From History”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 8 May 2025:

     “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of mocking those hopes.”

2. The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:homunculus.

派生語

• cortical homunculus
• homunculus argument

関連する語

• homo
• homunculine

参考

• manikin

参照

• “homunculus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “homunculus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “homunculus”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [hɔˈmʊŋ.kʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [oˈmuŋ.ku.lus]

名詞

homunculus m (genitive homunculī); second declension

1. diminutive of homō (“man”)
2. a little or weak man, homunculus
3. (rare) a dwarf

   Synonyms: nānus, pūmiliō

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

派生した語

• → Catalan: homuncle
• → English: homunculus
• → Spanish: homúnculo
• → French: homuncule
• → German: Homunkulus
• → Italian: homunculus
• → Japanese: ホムンクルス
• → Portuguese: homúnculo
• → Romanian: homunculus
• → Russian: гому́нкул (gomúnkul)

参照

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