sapiens

[ sey-pee-uhnz ]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or resembling modern humans ( Homo sapiens ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of sapiens¹

Borrowed into English from New Latin around 1935–40

Example Sentences

The most recent common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans was an ape that moved on all fours, had a skeleton a lot like a modern chimp’s, and, perhaps most important of all, had a chimp-sized brain, not our inflated sapiens brain.

From Nautilus

For example, humans aren’t just sapiens — that’s our species.

From Science News For Students

Understanding odds has never been a strength of Homo sapiens.

From The Daily Beast

In some very real sense, 21st-century Hollywood has forgotten how to use living, breathing Homo sapiens in action movies.

From The Daily Beast

But in terms of beneficial public-health impact, nothing Homo sapiens has invented thus far outpaces the vaccine.

From The Daily Beast

I have discovered the sapiens' blood is the only antidote to your contamination.

From The Daily Beast

He'd reveal definite indications of belonging to Homo Sapiens only when drinking beer and talking about his holes.

From Project Gutenberg

But an extremely primitive race has survived until the present time to demonstrate the original type of Homo sapiens.

From Project Gutenberg

"Sapiens," that is, a wise man, one who had attained to wisdom.

From Project Gutenberg

Quo responso aperte declaravit vir gravis et sapiens lege, quam tulerat Gracchus, patrimonium publicum dissipari.

From Project Gutenberg

Eam vir sanctus et sapiens sciet veram esse victoriam, quae, salva fide et integra dignitate, parabitur.

From Project Gutenberg