homunculus

hŏmuncŭlus, i, m. dim. [homo],

• a little or weakly man, a manikin: hui, Homunculi quanti estis! Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 66 (154); id. Capt. prol. 51; cf. id. Trin. 2, 4, 90 (491): hem! nos homunculi indignamur, si quis, etc., Sulpic. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 5, 4: neque tam desipiens fuisset, ut homunculis similem deum fingeret, Cic. N. D. 1, 44, 123: ut homunculus unus e multis, etc., id. Tusc. 1, 9, 17; cf.: humilis homunculus, id. ib. 5, 23, 64; Ap. Met. 9, 12, 11.

homunculus, ī, m. (Demin. v. homo, s. Prisc. 3, 34), ein Menschlein, bes. als armes, schwaches Geschöpf, ein armer (schwacher) Mensch, armes (schwaches) Erdenkind (im Ggstz. zur vollkommenen Gottheit usw.), Plaut., Cic. u.a.: belli homunculi (Leutchen), Varro sat. Men. 333 (bei Gell. 13, 11, 3).

homunculus [CL] 1 mere man, poor creature; b (fig.). c705 me tantillum ~um Aldh. Ep. 7 (10); 793 quid nos ~i ‥ melius excogitare poterimus quam ut ‥ ? Alcuin Ep. 23 p. 61; 931 post generalem qui omnibus ‥ ~is constat transitum CS 677 (cf. ib. 702: 934 homulis); Anselm I 247 (v. graviter 2a); non est quod gemine nature giganti miles ~us valeat coequari H. Bos. LM 1339D; miser homuncule, dic unde tumeas Walt. Wimb. Carm. 321.  b de illorum comparatione contribulum meorum quasi omuncula Hugeb. Will. prol.. 2 worthless fellow. brutum illud ~orum [sc. Albigensium] genus Ad. Eyns. Hug. IV 13 (v. abradere 3). 3 manikin. ~us, parvus homo, quod et homululus dicitur Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 275; apparuerunt ei ~i duo stature quasi pygmee Gir. IK I 8; hic ~us, a lytyl man ‥ hic omunculus, a duorow WW.

homunculus , i. m.
卑人。矮人。斗筲 之子。

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homunculus ī, m dim.

• homo, a little man, manikin: unus e multis.