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See also: ánima, animá, ànima, animà, animâ, and ânima

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin anima (“a current of air, wind, air, breath, the vital principle, life, soul”), sometimes equivalent to animus (“mind”), both from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe, blow”); see animus. Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”), Old English anda (“anger, envy, zeal”). More at onde.

Noun

anima (plural animas)

  1. (chiefly philosophy) The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus.
    • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXVIII:
      [W]e cannot chuse but admire the exceeding vividness of the governing faculty or Anima of the Insect, which is able to dispose and regulate so the motive faculties, as to cause every peculiar organ, not onely to move or act so quick, but to do it also so regularly.
  2. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 31:
      In the Jungian model of the psyche, the male has an internalized female counterpart, the anima; while the female has an internalized masculine counterpart, the animus.
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      Dorothy is bodiless and sexless in Tintern Abbey because she is Wordsworth's Jungian anima, an internal aspect of self momentarily projected.
  3. (Jungian psychology) The unconscious feminine aspect of a person.

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Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

anima

  1. inflection of animar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Chibcha

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish anima.

Pronunciation

Noun

anima

  1. anima, soul

References

  • Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

Esperanto

Etymology

From animo +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

Adjective

anima (accusative singular animan, plural animaj, accusative plural animajn)

  1. of the soul; spiritual
    • (Can we date this quote?), Simono Pejno (translator), “Revon havas mi” (“I Have a Dream”), speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr. in Washington, DC on August 28, 1963,
      Foje kaj refoje ni leviĝu supren al majestaj altejoj, alfrontante fizikan forton kun anima forto.
      Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
  2. of the mind, mental, psychological, inner
    Ĝi staras antaŭ miaj animaj okuloj. ― I can see it with my mind’s eye.
    anima lukto / ekvilibro ― inner struggle / balance
    • (Can we date this quote?), Heinrich August Luyken, Stranga heredaĵo, Ĉapitro 12,
      Vi bezonas korpan kaj animan ripozon.
      You need physical and mental rest.

French

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Verb

anima

  1. third-person singular past historic of animer

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Noun

anima (plural animas)

  1. soul

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.ni.ma/
  • Rhymes: -anima
  • Hyphenation: à‧ni‧ma

Etymology 1

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From Latin anima, from animus, from Proto-Italic *anamos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos, a nominal derivative of *h₂enh₁- (“breathe”). Doublet of alma.

Noun

anima f (plural anime)

  1. (religion, philosophy, also figurative) soul
  2. the innermost part of something:
    1. (botany) Synonym of durame (“heartwood”)
    2. (lutherie) sound post
  3. (metallurgy) a mould/mold used to create a cavity
  4. the innermost part of a rope
  5. (firearms) the inner cavity created by the chamber and the barrel
  6. (typography) the support of ink rollers
  7. (military, historical) a type of scaled armor
  8. (heraldry) a motto tied to a character
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Further reading

  • anima in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

anima

  1. inflection of animare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Portuguese animar.

Verb

anima

  1. (Sotavento) entertain, enliven

References

  • Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN
  • Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

Latin

Etymology 1

See animus.

Pronunciation

Noun

anima f (genitive animae); first declension

  1. soul, spirit, life
    • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.19:
      ...animum autem alii animam, ut fere nostri declarat nomen: nam et agere animam et efflare dicimus et animosos...
      ...some would have the soul, or spirit, to be the anima, as our schools generally agree; and indeed the name signifies as much, for we use the expressions animam agere, to live; animam efflare, to expire; animosi, men of spirit...
    • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, Lucam 1:46:
      Magnificat anima mea Dominum.
      My soul doth magnify the Lord.
  2. air, breeze
  3. breath
    Synonyms: spīritus, spīrātiō
Declension

First-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -īs or -ābus).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative anima animae
Genitive animae animārum
Dative animae animīs
animābus
Accusative animam animās
Ablative animā animīs
animābus
Vocative anima animae
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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

animā

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of animō

References

  • “anima”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “anima”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • anima in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • anima in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to breathe, live: animam, spiritum ducere
    • to hold one's breath: animam continere
    • to give up the ghost: animam edere or efflare
    • to be at one's last gasp: animam agere
    • (ambiguous) to weary, bore the reader: languorem, molestiam legentium animis afferre
    • (ambiguous) to banish devout sentiment from the minds of others: religionem ex animis extrahere (N. D. 1. 43. 121)
    • (ambiguous) Nature has implanted in all men the idea of a God: natura in omnium animis notionem dei impressit (N. D. 1. 16. 43)

Maltese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian animare.

Verb

anima (imperfect janima, past participle animat, verbal noun animar)

  1. to animate
Conjugation
    Conjugation of anima
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m animajt animajt anima animajna animajtu animaw
f animat
imperfect m nanima tanima janima nanimaw tanimaw janimaw
f tanima
imperative anima animaw

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian anima.

Noun

anima f (plural animi)

  1. The innermost part of something: core

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Old French

Noun

anima oblique singular, f (oblique plural animas, nominative singular anima, nominative plural animas)

  1. (9th and 10th centuries) Alternative form of ame

Portuguese

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Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from Latin anima. Doublet of alma, inherited from the same source.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: a‧ni‧ma

Noun

anima f (plural animas)

  1. (Jungian psychology) anima (unconscious feminine aspect of a male)
  2. anima (soul or inner self of a person)
    Synonym: alma
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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: a‧ni‧ma

Verb

anima

  1. inflection of animar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Q'anjob'al

Noun

anima

  1. person

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French animer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.niˈma/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: a‧ni‧ma

Verb

a anima (third-person singular present animă, past participle animat) 1st conj.

  1. to animate

Conjugation

    conjugation of anima (first conjugation, no infix)
infinitive a anima
gerund animând
past participle animat
number singular plural
person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present anim animi animă animăm animați animă
imperfect animam animai anima animam animați animau
simple perfect animai animași animă animarăm animarăți animară
pluperfect animasem animaseși animase animaserăm animaserăți animaseră
subjunctive eu tu el/ea noi voi ei/ele
present să anim să animi să anime să animăm să animați să anime
imperative — tu — — voi —
affirmative animă animați
negative nu anima nu animați

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aˈnima/
  • Rhymes: -ima
  • Syllabification: a‧ni‧ma

Verb

anima

  1. inflection of animar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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