homo homini lupus

From homō (“a human being, man”) + hominī (“to man”, dative singular of the same) + lupus (“a wolf”). As is typical of Latin proverbs, the sentence is nominal (lacks the copular est).

First attested in Erasmus' Adagia,[1] a variation on the proverb alluded to by Plautus in Lupus est homō hominī, nōn homō, quom quālis sit nōn nōvit ("To a human, a human is not a human but a wolf when he doesn't know what the other one is like").[2] Compare Erasmus' Hominī nūlla fera perniciōsior quam homō ("No beast is more dangerous to a human than another human").

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈho.moː ˈho.mi.niː ˈlu.pus/, [ˈhɔmoː ˈhɔmɪniː ˈɫ̪ʊpʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.mo ˈo.mi.ni ˈlu.pus/, [ˈɔːmo ˈɔːmini ˈluːpus]

homō hominī lupus

1. man is a wolf to man (what wolf is to other animals, man is to another man)

• → English: man is a wolf to man (calque)
• → Finnish: ihminen on ihmiselle susi (calque)
• → French: l'homme est un loup pour l'homme (calque)
• → Hungarian: ember embernek farkasa (calque)
• ⇒ Icelandic: maður er manns gaman (“man is the enjoyment of man”) (antonymic calque)
• → Polish: człowiek człowiekowi wilkiem (calque)
• → Portuguese: o homem é o lobo do homem (calque)
• → Russian: челове́к челове́ку волк (čelovék čelovéku volk) (calque)

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