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sapien

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Noun — A human being, a member of the species Homo sapiens.

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Etymology

This is a singular form created by back-formation and shortening from the translingual term Homo sapiens, formed by treating that term as if it were an English plural. In Latin, however, sapiens is strictly singular, with sapientes as its plural (so the Latin plural of homo sapiens is homines sapientes).

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