sapiens

[ sey-pee-uh nz ]

/ ˈseɪ pi ənz /

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

Origin of sapiens

Borrowed into English from New Latin around 1935–40

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

The Extinction Parade: An Original Zombie Story by Max Brooks |Max Brooks |January 14, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
Let us look at their race a long time back—when they first became Nipe sapiens.

Anything You Can Do |Gordon Randall Garrett
Vir sapiens forti melior—A wise man is better than a strong.

Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources |James Wood
He was the son-in-law of Lælius, surnamed Sapiens, or the Prudent.

Plutarch's Lives, Volume IV |Aubrey Stewart

The genitive construction is not found with sapiens used as noun or adjective till late Latin times.

Cato Maior de Senectute |Marcus Tullius Cicero
Unfortunately for him, he was called by his admiring fellow-monks, in his lifetime, Sapiens—the Wise.

London |Walter Besant