anima

See also: ánima, animá, ànima, animà, animâ, and ânima

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin anima ‎(“a current of air, wind, air, breath, the vital principle, life, soul”), sometimes equivalent to animus ‎(“mind”), both from Proto-Indo-European *ane- ‎(“to breathe, blow”); see animus. Cognate with Ancient Greek άνεμος ‎(ánemos, “wind”), Old English anda ‎(“anger, envy, zeal”). More at onde.

Noun

anima (plural animas)

1. (chiefly philosophy) The soul or inner self of a person, especially the irrational part of a person as contrasted with the rational animus. [from 10th c.]
2. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the external persona) of a person that is in touch with the unconscious as opposed to the persona. [from 20th c.]
   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     Dorothy is bodiless and sexless in Tintern Abbey because she is Wordsworth's Jungian anima, an internal aspect of self momentarily projected.

3. (Jungian psychology) The unconscious feminine aspect of a person. [from 20th c.]

Related terms

• animus
• animate
• animal

Translations

unconscious feminine aspect of a person

• Portuguese: anima (pt) f

External links

• anima in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• amain, Amina, amnia, mania

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Catalan

Verb

anima

1. third-person singular present indicative form of animar
2. second-person singular imperative form of animar

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Esperanto

Etymology

animo +‎ -a

Adjective

anima (accusative singular animan, plural animaj, accusative plural animajn)

1. of the soul

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French

Verb

anima

1. third-person singular past historic of animer

Anagrams

• mania

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Interlingua

Noun

anima (plural animas)

1. soul

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin anima. Doublet of alma.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -anima

Noun

anima f (plural anime)

1. soul

Verb

anima

1. third-person singular indicative present of animare
2. second-person singular imperative of animare

Related terms

Related terms

• anima gemella
• animale

• animare
• animazione

• animismo
• animo

Anagrams

• mania

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Latin

Etymology

See animus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ni.ma/, [ˈa.nɪ.ma]

Noun

anima f (genitive animae); first declension

1. soul, spirit, life

   Magnificat anima mea dominum.‎

   My soul glorifies the Lord.

2. air, breeze
3. breath
4. vocative singular of anima

animā f

1. ablative singular of anima

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	anima	animae
genitive	animae	animārum
dative	animae	animīs
accusative	animam	animās
ablative	animā	animīs
vocative	anima	animae

Related terms

Related terms

• animalis
• animal

• animare
• animate

• animatio
• ψυχή ‎(psukhḗ)

Derived terms

• anima mundi
• animula

Descendants

Aromanian: inimã Asturian: alma, ánima Basque: arima Catalan: ànima Dalmatian: jamna English: anima French: âme

Friulian: anime, ànime Galician: alma, ánima Istriot: anema Italian: alma, anima Occitan: anma, arma Old Catalan: arma Portuguese: alma, anima

Romanian: inimă Romansch: olma Sardinian: àmina Sicilian: arma Spanish: alma, ánima Venetian: ànema Walloon: åme

Verb

animā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of animō

References

• anima in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• anima in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ANIMA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, s.v. “anima”.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to breathe, live: animam, spiritum ducere
    
  • to hold one's breath: animam continere
    
  • to give up the ghost: animam edere or efflare
    
  • to be at one's last gasp: animam agere
    
  • (ambiguous) to weary, bore the reader: languorem, molestiam legentium animis afferre
    
  • (ambiguous) to banish devout sentiment from the minds of others: religionem ex animis extrahere (N. D. 1. 43. 121)
    
  • (ambiguous) Nature has implanted in all men the idea of a God: natura in omnium animis notionem dei impressit (N. D. 1. 16. 43)
    

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Old French

Noun

anima f (oblique plural animas, nominative singular anima, nominative plural animas)

1. (9th and 10th centuries) Alternative form of ame

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowing from Latin anima. Doublet of alma, inherited from the same source.

Alternative forms

• ânima
• ánima

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧ma
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ.ni.mɐ/

Noun

anima f (plural animas)

1. (Jungian psychology) anima (unconscious feminine aspect of a male)
2. anima (soul or inner self of a person)

Synonyms

• (soul): alma

Related terms

• alma
• anima mundi
• animus

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧ma
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ˈni.mɐ/, /a.ˈni.mɐ/

Verb

anima

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of animar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of animar

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowing from French animer.

Verb

a anima (third-person singular present animă, past participle animat) 1st conj.

1. anima

Conjugation

    conjugation of anima (first conjugation, no infix)

infinitive			a anima
gerund			animând
past participle			animat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	anim	animi	animă	animăm	animați	animă
	imperfect	animam	animai	anima	animam	animați	animau
	simple perfect	animai	animași	animă	animarăm	animarăți	animară
	pluperfect	animasem	animaseși	animase	animaserăm	animaserăți	animaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să anim	să animi	să anime	să animăm	să animați	să anime
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		animă			animați
	negative		nu anima			nu animați

Related terms

Related terms

• animabilitate
• animabil
• animare

• animație
• animator

• animat
• animism

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Spanish

Verb

anima

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of animar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of animar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of animar.