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animanormalized · anima4 analyses · 2 lemmas
Lemma 1anima
nounfeminine
soul, spirit, vital principle; life; breathing; wind, breeze; air (element)
Morphology3 analyses
nominative singularanim + a · regular
vocative singularanim + a · regular
ablative singularanim + a · regular
Lewis & Short
ănĭma, ae, ,
animāï; and regul. animis; Neue, Formenl. I. p. 29 [ animus], pr. that which blows or breathes; hence.
, air, a current of air, a breeze, wind (mostly ): vela ventorum animae immittere, Att. (Trag. Rel. p. 137 Rib.): Quantum ignes animaeque valent (of the wind in the workshop of Vulcan). — Also of a flame of fire (blowing like the air): noctilucam tollo, ad focum fero, inflo; anima reviviscit, Varr.
, the air, as an element, like fire, water, and earth (mostly ): aqua, terra, anima et sol, Enn.
The air inhaled and exhaled, breath (concr.); while spiritus denotes orig. breathing (abstr.; very in prose and poetry); Ruhnk.; 3, 46, 181: fetida anima nasum oppugnat, Titin. (Com. Rel. p. 136 Rib.): animas et olentia Medi Ora fovent illo, with this the Medes correct their breath, — Of breath exhaled. — Of the air breathed into a musical instrument, a breath of air — Since air is a necessary condition of life.
The vital principle, the breath of life: (hence anima denotes the animal principle of life, in distinction from animus, the spiritual, reasoning, willing principle; very in Lucr. and ): Mater est terra, ea parit corpus, animam aether adjugat, Pac. (Trag. Rel. p. 88 Rib.); Jan — Hence.
, life: Rib.: Rib.: Date ferrum, quī me animā privem, Enn. (Trag. Rel. p. 37 Rib.): me dicabo atque animam devōvo ( devovero) hostibus, Att. (Trag. Rel. p. 283 Rib.): Rib.; and, exspirare, ( in , ): Br. (so in ). — In and 26, anima in 25 seems to pass to the higher meaning, soul, ( , II. D.) in 26, as in the original also can do. — : Ni ego illi puteo, si occepso, animam omnem intertraxero, draw up all the life of that well, draw it dry. — Prov.: animam debere, to owe life itself, of one deeply in debt: (Graecum proverbium, Don.). — Metaph., applied to plants and other things possessing organic life.
, a creature endowed with anima, a living being: ova parere solet genu' pennis condecoratum, non animam, Enn. — of men (as we also say souls for persons; or in prose). — in enumerations in — Of slaves ( ): (after the use of and ). — Hence, also, souls separated from the body, the shades of the Lower World, manes: Unde (ex Averno) animae excitantur, Enn. — in of departed spirits: bis.
As expressive of love.
Sometimes for animus, as the rational soul of man.
The mind as the seat of thought ( animus, II. A.). — often in
As the seat of feeling ( animus, II. B.): sapimus animo, fruimur animā: sine animo anima est debilis, Att. (Trag. Rel. p. 175 Rib.)
For consciousness ( animus, II. A. 3. and conscientia, II. A.); in this phrase animus is more common.
Lemma 2animo, animare, animavi, animatus
verb
to animate, give/bring life; to revive, refresh; to rouse, animate; to inspire; to blow
Morphology1 analysis
present imperative active 2nd singularanim + a · regular
Lewis & Short
ănĭmo, āvi, ātum, 1, , [anima and animus]
To fill with breath or air ( anima, I. and II.). — More
To quicken, animate ( anima, II. C.): quicquid est hoc, omnia animat, format, alit, auget, creat, Pac. stellae divinis animatae mentibus.
To endow with, to give, a particular temperament or disposition of mind ( animus, II. B. 1. b.): Mattiaci ipso terrae suae solo ac caelo acrius animantur, ferociores redduntur, are rendered more spirited, *.
In Ovid in a pregnant signif.: aliquid in aliquid animare, to transform a lifeless object to a living being, to change into by giving life ( anima, II. C. 3.).
, of colors, to enliven. — Of torches, to light or kindle. — Sometimes = recreare, to refresh, revive; or , to encourage, help. — And with = incitare, to move, incite to.
Animated ( anima, II. C.): virum virtute verā vivere animatum addecet, Enn.
( C.) Brought or put into a particular frame of mind, disposed, inclined, minded, in some way ( and ): avi et atavi nostri, quom allium ac caepe eorum verba olerent, tamen optime animati erant, Varr. (where the play upon olere and animati is to be noticed): animatus in necem alicujus, Macr — In Plaut. with : si quid animatus es facere.
Endowed with courage, courageous, stouthearted animus, II. 2. a. and animosus: cum animatus iero, satis armatus sum, Att. : p. 233, 18. — not used.
Neutr., to be animate, living ( anima, II. C.); only ănĭ-mans, antis ( animante, but animanti in; animantium in Cic., animantum in Lucr., and )
P. a., animate, living. — Hence.
, any living, animate being; an animal (orig. in a wider sense than animal, since it included men, animals, and plants; but usu., like that word, for animals in to men. The gender varies in the best writers between masc., fem., and neutr. When it designates man, it is masc.; brutes, fem.; in its widest sense, it is neutr.) — Of animals, living beings, as to plants. — Of man: hic stilus haud petet ultro Quemquam animantem, *. — , , and not used.
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