[flatfilefan]

Were you guys ever curious as to what the word “anthrop” means exactly?

Here’s an interesting explanation from Socrates:” Socrates I will tell you. The name “man” (ἄνθρωπος) indicates that the other animals do not examine, or consider, or look up at (ἀναθρεῖ) any of the things that they see, but man has no sooner seen—that is, ὄπωπε—than he looks up at and considers that which he has seen. Therefore of all the animals man alone is rightly called man (ἄνθρωπος), because he looks up at (ἀναθρεῖ) what he has seen (ὄπωπε).”

http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname...

And yet the English “man”, Spanish “hombre”, Russian Мужик mean the same yet different thing, namely a (working) hand. As in “how many hands do you have in your factory?”