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sapiens

sapiens noun: a human being (Homo sapiens).

Noun

sapiens (plural sapiens or sapientes)

  1. A human being (Homo sapiens).
    • The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food.2000, William H. Libaw, How we got to be human: subjective minds with objective bodies, page 277
    • Even if we assume that the rate of change was slow and the evolving population large, we must still assume that sapiens was rather isolated.2005, Sherwood L. Washburn, Classification and Human Evolution, page 335

Proper noun capitalized: Sapiens

Sapiens

  1. (plural) plural of Sapien

Examples of sapiens in a sentence

  • A hundred thousand years from now, will Homo sapiens have evolved into beings unrecognizable to their ancestors?
  • The remnants of the Neanderthal race mixed with members of Homo sapiens.
  • The binary name for human is Homo sapiens.

All 17 example sentences with sapiens

Forms of sapiens

pluralsapiens
pluralsapientes

Plural of sapiens: sapiens or sapientes

Origin of sapiens

From translingual Homo sapiens, from Latin sapiēns, present active participle of sapiō (“discern, be capable of discerning”).

Phrases with sapiens

Questions about sapiens

What does sapiens mean?
Sapiens means a human being (Homo sapiens).
What part of speech is sapiens?
Sapiens can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of sapiens?
The plural of sapiens is sapiens.

Words near sapiens in the dictionary

  1. sapiences
  2. sapiencies
  3. sapiency
  4. sapienic acid
  5. sapienization
  6. sapiens
  7. sapient
  8. sapientes
  9. sapiential
  10. sapientially
  11. sapientious

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