MAN

man, the word common to teutonic languages for a single person of the human race, of either sex, the lat. _homo_, and gr. [greek: anthropos]; also for the human race collectively, and for a full-grown adult male human being. teutonic languages, other than english, have usually adopted a derivative in the first sense, e.g. german _mensch_. philologists are not in agreement as to whether the sanskrit _manu_ is the direct source, or whether both are to be traced to a common root. doubt also is thrown on the theory that the word is to be referred to the indo-germanic root, _men_, meaning "to think," seen in "mind," man being essentially the thinking or intelligent animal. (see anthropology.)