inanimus Latin · revision 33232

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=220–130 BC, Pacuvius|origins=la anima}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪˈna.nɪ.mʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iˈnaː.ni.mus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''inanimus''' (feminine inanima, neuter inanimum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

+ Also ''inanimis'', in Apuleius.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|anima|-us|t2=breath, soul]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Pacuvius has it first, of a slow-footed four-footed creature, disembowelled and lifeless.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Its usual sense is “inanimate”, not having breath or life, and Cicero uses it in philosophy:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) what is inanimate is moved by an outside push, while a living being moves by an inner motion of its own,^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) and the chief difference between them is that the inanimate does nothing.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Among things useful to men he counts lifeless ones such as gold, silver and what grows from the earth.^(OLD 2012) The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' sets animate and inanimate things side by side,^(Lewis & Short 1879) Livy has animals and lifeless things stiff with frost, and Pliny the Elder shapeless, lifeless flesh.^(OLD 2012) The neuter is a noun, “an inanimate thing”.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Apuleius uses it of a person lying lifeless and of food without meat.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 220–130 BC – Pacuvius, “lifeless”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', of inanimate things.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero, in philosophy.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius, of meatless food.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Deprived of breath, [[m|en|lifeless]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Not endowed with life, [[m|en|inanimate]];^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(neuter as noun)'' an inanimate thing.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Of food, without meat.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[anima]]

+ * [[animus]]

+ * [[exanimis]]

+ * [[inanimālis]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}