humane

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Variant form of human, now preserved in specialized senses.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hjuːˈmeɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn

AdjectiveEdit

humane (comparative humaner or more humane, superlative humanest or most humane)

1. Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.

   It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.

   As methods of execution go, beheading is more humane than drawing and quartering.

2. Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical literature or rhetoric.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069:, II.3.7:

     many divine precepts to counterpoise our hearts, special antidotes both in scriptures and humane authors, which who so will observe, shall purchase much ease and quietness unto himself.

3. Obsolete spelling of human

AntonymsEdit

• inhuman, inhumane

Derived termsEdit

• humanely

Related termsEdit

Related terms

• human
• humanist

• humanitarian
• humanity

TranslationsEdit

with regard for the health and well-being of another

• Armenian: մարդկային (hy) (mardkayin)
• Catalan: humà (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有人情 (zh) (yoǔrénqíng), 人道的 (zh) (réndào de)

• Dutch: humaan (nl)
• Esperanto: humana
• Estonian: inimlik
• Finnish: inhimillinen (fi)
• Georgian: ჰუმანური (humanuri)
• German: human (de), menschlich (de)
• Hebrew: אנושי‎ (he) (enoshí)
• Icelandic: mannúðlegur (is)

• Irish: Críostúil, daonna, daonnachtúil
• Japanese: 人道的 (じんどうてき, jintōteki)
• Kalmyk: аврңhу (avrñhu)
• Latvian: cilvēcīgs, humāns
• Polish: ludzki (pl) m, humanitarny (pl) m
• Portuguese: humano (pt)
• Romanian: omenos (ro), uman (ro)
• Russian: челове́чный (ru) (čelovéčnyj), гума́нный (ru) (gumánnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: truacanta
• Spanish: humano (es)
• Swedish: human (sv)

ReferencesEdit

• “humane” in John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors, The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.

AnagramsEdit

• Humean

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DanishEdit

AdjectiveEdit

humane

1. definite singular of human
2. plural of human

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EsperantoEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /huˈmane/
• Hyphenation: hu‧ma‧ne

AdverbEdit

humane

1. humanely

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GermanEdit

AdjectiveEdit

humane

1. inflected form of human

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From hūmānus (“humane, noble”)

AdverbEdit

hūmānē (comparative hūmānius, superlative hūmānissimē)

1. humanly, in a human manner.
2. humanely, kindly, politely; in a humane manner.

SynonymsEdit

• (humanly): hūmāniter, hūmānitus
• (humanely): hūmāniter, hūmānitus

Related termsEdit

• hūmāna
• hūmānitas
• hūmāniter
• hūmānitus

• hūmānō
• hūmānum
• hūmānus

ReferencesEdit

• humane in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• humane in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “humane” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to bear a thing with resignation, composure: humane, modice, moderate, sapienter, constanter ferre aliquid
    
• Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

AdjectiveEdit

humane

1. singular definite of human
2. plural of human

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

AdjectiveEdit

humane

1. singular definite of human
2. plural of human

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SwedishEdit

AdjectiveEdit

humane

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of human.