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Latin
Etymology
From ūni- + animus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ūnanimus (feminine ūnanima, neuter ūnanimum, adverb ūnanimiter); first/second-declension adjective
- concordant, harmonious, unanimous (that acts as one), in concert, of one mind, like-minded, one-souled, sympathizing
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.8-9:
- cum sīc ūnanimam adloquitur male sāna sorōrem:
“Anna soror, quae mē suspēnsam īnsomnia terrent!”- When, badly distraught, speaks in this way with her like-minded sister: “Anna, sister, restless — what dreams frighten me!”
(Dido’s closest confidant, her sister Anna, first appears here in the epic. Translations vary – Mackail, 1885: “opens her confidence to her sister”; Knight, 1956: “the sister whose heart was one with hers”; Fagles, 2006: “confides now to the sister of her soul”; Ahl, 2007: “what was her soul’s other self, in a manner, her sister”; Ruden, 2021: “her loving sister”.)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
- “unanimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “unanimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- unanimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.