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sapiens

noun

Etymology

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

  1. derived from sapiēns
  2. borrowed from Homo sapiens

Definitions

  1. A human being (Homo sapiens).

    • The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food.
    • 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.

  2. plural of Sapien

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at sapiens. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at sapiens. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at sapiens

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA