English

Alternative forms

• homonculus

Noun

homunculus ‎(plural homunculi)

1. A miniature man, once imagined by spermists to be present in human sperm.
2. The nerve map of the human body that exists on the parietal lobe of the human brain.

Citations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:homunculus.

Derived terms

• cortical homunculus

Related terms

• homo

Translations

See also

• manikin

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hoˈmun.ku.lus/, [hɔˈmʊŋ.kʊ.ɫʊs]

Noun

homunculus m ‎(genitive homunculī); second declension

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

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• 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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “homunculus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.