Homo

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1920s: abbreviation.


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A clipping of words prefixed with homo-, from Ancient Greek ὁμο-(homo-, “same”): i.e. homogenized and homosexual.

From Latin homō̆(“man, human”), sometimes as a shortening of Homo sapiens. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Doublet of gome.


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homo (n.)

short for homosexual (n.), attested by 1929, usually contemptuous; as an adjective by 1933.