animans Latin · revision 9890

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''animans''' ^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the present participle of [[animō]] “to give life to”, from [[m|la|anima|t=breath, life]], used as an adjective and noun.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨animus⟩ to [[itc-pro|*anamo-|t=breath, spirit]], from [[ine-pro|*h₂enh₁-mo-|t=breath]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's earliest source is the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'', and the OLD cites Lucretius and Cicero.^(Köbler 2010)^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates the ''Rhetorica'' 86/82 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As an adjective it meant having life, living, animate, as in Cicero's ''De natura deorum''.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) As a noun, of all three genders, it meant a living creature, an animal, as in Cicero; an animate being other than man; and in Seneca a living organism, apparently including plants.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant living, alive, and as a noun a living creature.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' uses it.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of living creatures.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Living, [[m|en|animate]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # A living creature, an [[m|en|animal]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A living organism.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[animō]]

+ * [[anima]]

+ * [[animal]]

+ * [[animātus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}