different between animal vs epizootic

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: ?n'?m?l, IPA^(key): /?æn?m?l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English animal, from Old French animal, from Latin animal, a nominal use of an adjective from animale, neuter of anim?lis, from anima (“breath, spirit”). Displaced native Middle English deor, der (“animal”) (from Old English d?or (“animal”)), Middle English reother (“animal, neat”) (from Old English hr?þer, hr?þer (“neat, ox”)).

Noun

animal (plural animals)

1. (sciences) A eukaryote of the clade Animalia; a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).

   Synonyms: beast, creature
2. (loosely) Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.

   Synonym: beast

3. (loosely, colloquial) Any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.).
4. (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.

   Synonyms: brute, monster, savage

5. (informal) A person of a particular type.

6. Matter, thing.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:animal

Related terms

Translations

See animal/translations § Noun.

Etymology 2

From Latin anim?lis, from either anima (“breath, spirit”) or animus. Originally distinct from the noun, it became associated with attributive use of the noun and is now indistinguishable from it.

Adjective

animal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to animals.

   Synonyms: beastly, bestial

2. Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.

   Synonyms: animalistic, beastly, bestial, untamed, wild

3. Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
   • 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004), page 47:

     To explain what activated the flesh, ‘animal spirits’ were posited, superfine fluids which shuttled between the mind and the vitals, conveying messages and motion.

4. (slang, Ireland) Excellent

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Wiktionary appendix of terms relating to animals

References

• animal at OneLook Dictionary Search
• animal in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• animal in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Almain, Malian, Manila, Milana, al-Amin, almain, aminal, lamina, maalin, manila

Asturian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin animal.

Adjective

animal (epicene, plural animales)

1. animal

Noun

animal m (plural animales)

1. animal

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin animal.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?.ni?mal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.ni?mal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

animal (masculine and feminine plural animals)

1. animal

Noun

animal m (plural animals)

1. animal

Derived terms

• animalada
• animalitzar (“to animalize”)

Further reading

• “animal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “animal” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “animal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “animal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cebuano

Etymology 1

From English animal, from Middle English animal, from Old French animal, from Latin animal, a nominal use of an adjective from animale, neuter of anim?lis, from anima (“breath, spirit”).

Noun

animal

1. animal
2. (derogatory) a contemptible person
3. (sometimes humurous), a crazy person

Adjective

animal

1. (sometimes humurous), crazy
2. contemptible, deserving contempt
3. ruthless; without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless

Etymology 2

From Spanish animal, from Latin animal.

Interjection

animal

1. (vulgar) used as an expression of disgust, anger, etc.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin animal. Compare the archaic inherited doublet aumaille and its variant armaille, both from the Latin neuter plural anim?lia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.mal/
• Homophones: animale, animales

Noun

animal m (plural animaux)

1. animal

   Synonyms: bête, bestiole

Derived terms

Adjective

animal (feminine singular animale, masculine plural animaux, feminine plural animales)

1. animal

   Synonym: bestial

   Antonym: végétal

Further reading

• “animal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• lamina

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin animal.

Adjective

animal m or f (plural animais)

1. animal

Noun

animal m (plural animais)

1. animal

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French animal, from Latin animal.

Noun

animal

1. animal

   Synonym: zannimo

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ni?mal/

Noun

animal (plural animales)

1. animal

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese animal.

Noun

animal

1. beast
2. animal

Latin

Etymology

From anim?le, nominative neuter singular of anim?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.ni.mal/, [?än?mä??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.ni.mal/, [???nim?l]

Noun

animal n (genitive anim?lis); third declension

1. animal
2. living creature

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Synonyms

• bestia

Related terms

Descendants

References

• animal in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• animal in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• animal in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• animal in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Middle English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ani?ma?l/, /a?nimal/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French animal, from Latin animal.

Alternative forms

• animale

Noun

animal (plural animales)

1. An animal (considered to include humans)

Descendants

• English: animal
• Scots: ainimal

References

• “anim?l, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-16.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin anim?lis.

Alternative forms

• animale, animall, anymal, anymall

Adjective

animal

1. Related to the soul or spirit of a living being (i.e. sentience or sapience)

Descendants

• English: animal

References

• “anim?l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-16.

Middle French

Noun

animal m (plural animaux or animaulx)

1. animal

   Synonym: beste

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese animal and Spanish animal.

Noun

animal

1. beast
2. animal

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin animal. See also alimária, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.ni.?ma?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?.ni.?maw/, [??.n????.?mä??]
• Hyphenation: a?ni?mal
• Rhymes: -aw

Adjective

animal m or f (plural animais, comparable)

1. (biology) animal (relating to animals)
   • 2000, Julio S. Inglez de Sousa et al., Enciclopédia agrícola brasileira: E-H, Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, page 225:

     Em anatomia animal o termo é de uso muito comum, […]

     The term is very commonly used in animal anatomy, […]

2. (Brazil, slang) cool; awesome
   • 2015, Juliana Rosenthal K., Save the Day, Buqui, page 52:

     É, tava animal mesmo — Bia mal consegue falar.

     Yeah, it really was wild — Bia can barely speak.

Inflection

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:animal.

Noun

animal m (plural animais)

1. (biology) animal (any member of the kingdom Animalia)
   • 2020, Petrônio Braz, Léxico dos Gerais, Chiado Books, page 481:

     Primatas — Animais mamíferos, da ordem Primata, que compreende os macacos, antropóides e o homem.

     Primates — Mammalian animals, of the order Primata, which comprises monkeys/apes, anthropoids and man.

2. (non-scientific usage) animal (an animal other than a human, especially a vertebrate)
   • Daniela Ikawa, Valor humano intrínseco e redistribuição social in 2007, Flávia Piovesan, Daniela Ikawa, Direitos Humanos: Fundamento, Proteção e Implementação, volume 2, Juruá Editora, page 44:

     Separar os dois grupos — humanos e animais requereria, dentro dos limites da teoria relativa à dor e ao sofrimento, […]

     Separating the twe groups — humans and animals would require, within the limits of the theory relating to pain and suffering, […]

   Synonyms: besta, bicho

3. (colloquial) twat; idiot; moron
   • 1979, Wilson Bacelar de Oliveira, Os meus fantasmas, Editora Comunicação, page 490:

     Escute aqui, seu animal, então você brigou com o companheiro?

     Listen up, you dumbass, so you fought with [your] mate?

   Synonyms: idiota, retardado, burro, imbecil, débil mental, besta

4. (colloquial) beast (a cruel person)
   • 2007, Creso Balduíno, O verso do ser, Editora Revan, page 170:

     Josuel é um animal repulsivo, uma besta humana.

     Josuel is a repulsive beast, a human beast.

   Synonym: monstro

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:animal.

Derived terms

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French animal, from Latin animal. Doublet of n?maie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ni?mal/

Adjective

animal m or n (feminine singular animal?, masculine plural animali, feminine and neuter plural animale)

1. animal, animalistic
2. brutal

Declension

Adverb

animal

1. brutally

Noun

animal n (plural animale)

1. animal

Declension

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin animal.

Noun

animal m (plural animals)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) animal

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) biestg
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) bestga
• (Sursilvan) tier, bestia
• (Puter, Vallader) bes-cha

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin animal. See also alimaña, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ani?mal/, [a.ni?mal]
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

animal (plural animales)

1. animal

Noun

animal m (plural animales)

1. animal

Derived terms

Related terms

Anagrams

• lámina
• lamina

Further reading

• “animal” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English animal.

Noun

animal

1. animal (members of Kingdom Animalia that are not humans)

   Synonym: abus

English

Alternative forms

• epizoötic (pentasyllabic senses)
• epizoodic (tetrasyllabic senses)
• epizudic (tetrasyllabic senses)

Etymology

From French épizootique, animal equivalent of epidemic, from épizootie, irregularly formed from Ancient Greek ??? (epí) + ???? (zôion, “animal”).epi- +? zo- +? -otic. Use of the word in the second sense, "an ailment", was likely originally a reference to a particular epizootic ailment. Both senses are attested since at least the 1800s, and the pronunciation with five syllables is explicitly attested since then as well. Dialectal pronunciation of the second sense with four syllables is attested since at least the 1910s in spellings like "epizudic" and is suggested by 1870s references to a shortened form of the word, "zooty".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.z??w?t?k/, /?p?.zo???t?k/
• (dialectal, especially in the sense ‘an ailment’) IPA^(key): /?p??zu?d?k/

Noun

epizootic (plural epizootics)

1. (epidemiology) An occurrence of a disease or disorder in a population of non-human animals at a frequency higher than that expected in a given time period. Compare epidemic.

   At the same time as an epidemic of the flu broke out among the people, an epizootic of the swine flu broke out among their pigs.
2. A particular epizootic disease.
   • 1856, On the epizootic lately affecting lambs, in The Veterinarian; or Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science for 1856, volume XXIX-II, fourth series, edited by Morton and Simonds, page 450:

     A surgeon in the town has also informed me, that a person requested him to prescribe for some lambs affected with the epizootic, and he gave them Epsom salts and opium, with, as he said, very good effect.

3. (dialectal, humorous, often in the plural) A disease or ailment (of humans).

   Johnny's not doing so well today, I think he caught the epizootic.

   • 1873, Jeramiah Juniur Blows His Bugle, in Gem of the West and Soliders' Friend, seventh year, January 1873, page 378:

     Last fall, when Dad had the Epizootic; no, I don't mean that, tho I did think he had em, but when the Chicargar hosses got the Epizootic, Dad got all fired mad caus that xpressman didn't cum round to move the rest of our traps.

   • 1977, Dear Sammy: Letters from Getrude Stein and Alice Toklas, edited by Samuel M. Steward, page 237:

     Never do I have colds — but I got the epizootics(?) and sneezed my head off — twenty three times yesterday.

Usage notes

Used in the second sense to mean "an ailment", it is often preceded by the definite article ("the epizootic"), is often plural in form ("the epizootics"), and is sometimes written "(the) epizoodic".

Adjective

epizootic (comparative more epizootic, superlative most epizootic)

1. (epidemiology) Like or having to do with an epizootic: epidemic among animals.

   Epizootic plague occurred in the mice following introduction of rats from Europe.

   • 1913, J. J. Desmond, An enzootic of contagious abortion in cattle, in the American Journal of Veterinary Medicine, September 1913, volume VIII, number 9, page 470:

     As much attention is being drawn to the subject of epizootic abortion in bovines, [...]

   • 1919 March 19, author not named, The Mud Larks, in Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, 2004 Gutenberg edition,

     I handed it back to him, explaining that he had come to the wrong shop--unless he were a horse, of course. If he were and could provide his own nosebag, head-stall and Army Form 1640, testifying that he was guiltless of mange, ophthalmia or epizootic lymphangitis, I would do what I could for him.

   • 1933, British Veterinary Journal, Volume 89, page 74,

     The parasites important in Britain do, however, by themselves constitute a most serious source of loss to pig breeders — probably at least as serious as that caused by the various more spectacular but more epizootic bacterial diseases.

2. (geology, rare) Containing fossils.
   • 1799, Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays, pages 160-161:

     Hence their primary division is into primeval and secondary or Epizootic. And the epizootic mountains are still farther distinguishable into original and derivative.

3. Relating to epizoa; epizoic.

Antonyms

• enzootic

Derived terms

• antiepizootic
• epizootically
• epizootize

Related terms

• epizoology
• panzootic
• zootic
• epidemic
• pandemic
• endemic

References

Romanian

Etymology

From French épizootique

Adjective

epizootic m or n (feminine singular epizootic?, masculine plural epizootici, feminine and neuter plural epizootice)

1. epizootic

Declension