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animal

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

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nahualism

English

Alternative forms

  • nagualism

Etymology

nahual +? -ism. The first element is from Nahuatl nahualli (sorcerer, spirit, animal form a person may take).

Noun

nahualism (uncountable)

  1. The Mesoamerican belief that (certain) human beings can transform into animals.

See also

  • nahual (nagual)
  • tonal (tona, tonalli)
  • skinwalking

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