Homo (disambiguation)

Homo (from Latin homo 'man, man ") stands for:

Homo genus name of the people

Derived from it are, among others, the following designations:

Homo clausus: the " locked man," one of Norbert Elias introduced in sociology term
Homo faber: the creative person
Homo inermis: the " defenseless man," a coined by Arnold Gehlen image of man as a flawed being
Homo ludens: the gambling man
Homo oecologicus: the ecological thinking and acting human
Homo economicus: the economy end human
Homo reciprocans: the man erwidernde
Homo ridens: the laughing man
Homo sociologicus: social man
Homo superior: the superman, the ideal man

The prefix homo (Greek ὁμός homos "same" ) is available in technical terms for " equal "; see also List of Greek root words. This results in, among others, the following definitions derive from:

Gay; " Homo" ( partly used pejoratively ) as a short word for homosexuals; as a component of compositions such as gay marriage ( mostly used neutral)
In organic chemistry, the prefix indicates Homo that a compound having a methyl group to [ CH2 ] extended backbone, e.g., homoserine Vs. Serine.
Homogeneity
Homograph, Homo grams, word from a group of words, all of which have the same spelling but different meanings and often a different pronunciation
Homonym
Homophone

HOMO stands for:

Highest Occupied Molecular Orbital
HOMO. Journal of Comparative Human Biology, name of the anthropological journal of the Australasian Society for Human Biology