From Homo +‎ -idae (using homin-, stem for inflections of homo (“human”)).

Hominidae

1. A taxonomic family within the order Primates – great apes: chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, humans, and extinct relatives.
2. (archaic) A taxonomic family within the order Primates – humans and our extinct relatives, but excluding chimpanzees and orangutans.
   • 1965, E. L. Simons, D. R. Pilbeam, “Preliminary Revision of the Dryopithecinae (Pongidae, Anthropoidea)”, in Folia Primatol (Basel), volume 3, number 3(2), →DOI, →PMID, page 81:

     For many years it has been realized that the origins of both Pongidae and Hominidae are probably to be found among species of the Miocene-Pliocene pongid subfamily Dryopthecinae.

• (family): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Primates – order; Haplorrhini – suborder; Simiiformes – infraorder; Catarrhini – parvorder; Hominoidea – superfamily

• (family): Homininae, Ponginae – extant subfamilies
  • Gorilla, Homo, Pan, Pongo – extant genera

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• Hominidae in Mammal Species of the World^[1] at Bucknell.
• “Hominidae”, in Paleobiology Database, 2026