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Humilis — Logeion lexical record
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- University of Chicago Logeion · Lewis and Short Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- University of Chicago
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- scholarly lexicon
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- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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Humiliate is historically to make low.
Late Latin humiliāre means to make low or humble and grows from humilis, low or near the ground, which is formed from humus, earth. Modern shame and loss of dignity sit on that lowering history.
*dhg̑hem-
*dhg̑hem- → *dhghem- → *(dh)ghom-o- → humus → humilis → humiliāre → humiliātus → humiliate
Humilis: near the ground, low down, lowlyDocuments the literal and figurative Latin bridge.
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Does English humiliate descend directly from dirt or English humus?
No. English humiliate passes through Late Latin humiliatus and humiliare, then Latin humilis. Humilis is formed from Latin humus; the modern English soil word is a separate later borrowing.
Humilis literal and figurative sensesShows that ground, lowness, and status senses belong to the Latin adjective.
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humilis → humus
Latin → Latin · derivation
- SOUND
- Latin humilis is formed from humus, earth or ground, with adjectival morphology and vowel adjustment.
- MEANING
- Near-the-ground or low develops into low in rank and humble.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · Calvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Humilis: near the ground, low down, and figuratively low or lowlyDocuments both physical and social Latin sense fields.
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Latin and Late Latin linguistic record
Documents the physical and social Latin semantic field.
Humilis: literal near-ground and figurative low or lowly senses · broad070
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