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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of exanimō (“weaken, exhaust”).
Participle
exanimātus (feminine exanimāta, neuter exanimātum); first/second-declension participle
- weakened, exhausted
- killed
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico V.44:
- Pullo pilum in hostes immittit atque unum ex multitudine procurrentem traicit; quo percusso et exanimato hunc scutis protegunt, in hostem tela universi coniciunt neque dant regrediendi facultatem.
- Pullo throws his javelin at the enemy, and pierces one of the multitude who was running up, and while the latter was wounded and slain, the enemy cover him with their shields, and all throw their weapons at the other and afford him no opportunity of retreating.
- unconscious
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “exanimatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers