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Latin
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Pronunciation
Adjective
exanimis (neuter exanime); third-declension two-termination adjective
- dead, lifeless
- Synonyms: mortuus, dēfūnctus
- Antonym: vīvus
- breathless, as if near death, resulting from fear or terror; fainting
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.672:
- Audiit exanimis trepidōque exterrita cursū
- hears, and – breathless, terrified, with wild haste .
(Fearing the worst, Anna is briefly without a breath – i.e., she figuratively becomes nearly lifeless herself, and maybe almost faints – before she rushes to find her sister Dido near death.)
- terrified, dismayed
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Descendants
References
- “exanimis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exanimis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exanimis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.