HUMAN Copy link • HUMANhumanus (in all the relations of the English word); by the genitive hominum (when = proper to men; e.g., human faults and errors, hominum vitae et errores): mortalis (in respect of the imperfection of men). Anything exceeds all human comprehension, aliquid humani ingenii modum excedit: human feeling, humanitas: to lay aside, renounce all human feeling, humanitatem omnem exuere; ab humanitate desciscere; hominem ex homine exuere: to have committed some fault from human frailty, aliqua culpa humani erroris teneri. Human form, forma, species humana; humana species et figura; humana species atque forma: to have a human form, humano visu esse (of a god, as also the following expressions): to assume a human form, speciem humanam induere: in a human form, humana specie indutus; sub humana imagine (Ov., Met., 1, 213). Human life, vita hominis or hominum; vita humana. Human race, genus humanum or hominum; gens humana: the whole human race, universum genus hominum; omnes or cuncti mortales. Human sacrifice, hostia or victima humana: the barbarous custom of offering human sacrifices, barbara consuetudo hominum immolandorum: to offer human sacrifices, pro victimis homines immolare; homines immolare: to offer a human sacrifice, hominem immolare: to offer a human sacrifice to a god, alicui deo humana hostia facere or litare (Plin., 8, 22, 34; Tac., Germ., 9, in.).