Borrowed from Spanish hombre ("man; human being"), from Old Spanish omne, from Latin hominem, accusative of homō, from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Italic *hemō ("man"), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ ("earthling"), from *dʰéǵʰōm.
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