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English

Etymology

Assibilated variant of hunk, of uncertain origin.

Alternatively, a derivative of hump, via an earlier Middle English *hunche, *humpchin, from *hump +? -chin, -chen (diminutive suffix), equivalent to hump +? -kin. In the sense of an intuitive impression, said to be from the old gambling superstition that it brings luck to touch the hump of a hunchback.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?nt?/, /h?n?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

hunch (plural hunches)

1. A hump; a protuberance.
2. A stooped or curled posture; a slouch.

   The old man walked with a hunch.

3. A theory, idea, or guess; an intuitive impression that something will happen.

   I have a hunch they'll find a way to solve the problem.

4. A hunk; a lump; a thick piece.

   a hunch of bread
5. A push or thrust, as with the elbow.

Synonyms

• (guess): hint, clue, inkling

Translations

Verb

hunch (third-person singular simple present hunches, present participle hunching, simple past and past participle hunched)

1. (intransitive) To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders.

   Synonyms: slouch, stoop, lean

   • 1961, Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, New York: HarperPerenniel, 1994, Chapter 5, p. 156,^[2]

     Sandy, you will never get anywhere by hunching over your putter, hold your shoulders back and bend from the waist.

   • 1978, Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, New York: Ballantine Books, “… and many happy returns,” p. 76,^[3]

     She rolled over and hunched into a fetal position.

2. (transitive) To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up).
   • 1672, Edward Ravenscroft, The Citizen Turn’d Gentleman, London: Thomas Dring, Act I, Scene 1, p. 4,^[4]

     Danc[ing] Mast[er]. […] not too fast […] keep you[r] leg[s] straight, […] don’t hunch up your shoulders so;

   • 1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not ..., New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Part 2, Chapter 2,^[5]

     If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed....

   • 1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, New York: Scribner, Chapter 17,^[6]

     He would hunch his twisted body close and put out his gentle and crooked hand and touch the fawn.

   • 1939, John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, New York: Viking, 1958, Chapter 10, p. 142,^[7]

     They sat looking out at the dark, at the square of light the kitchen lantern threw on the ground outside the door, with a hunched shadow of Grampa in the middle of it.

3. (intransitive) To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders.

   Synonym: slouch

   • 1955, J. P. Donleavy, The Ginger Man, New York: Dell, Chapter 2, p. 9,^[8]

     […] the figure hunched up the road.

   • 1969, Ray Bradbury, “The Inspired Chicken Motel” in I Sing the Body Electric, New York: Knopf, p. 57,^[9]

     […] once we had hunched in out of the sun and slunk through a cold pork-and-beans-on-bread lunch […] my brother and I found a desert creek nearby and heaved rocks at each other to cool off.

   • 1983, Jack Vance, Suldrun’s Garden, Spatterlight Press, 2012, Chapter 18,^[10]

     […] wheezing and grunting he hunched across the room.

4. (transitive) To thrust a hump or protuberance out of (something); to crook, as the back.
   • 1679, John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee, Oedipus, London: R. Bentley and M. Magnes, Act I, p. 6,^[11]

     […] thou art all one errour; soul and body.

     The first young tryal of some unskill’d Pow’r;

     Rude in the making Art, and Ape of Jove.

     Thy crooked mind within hunch’d out thy back;

     And wander’d in thy limbs:

5. (transitive) To push or jostle with the elbow; to push or thrust against (someone).

   Synonyms: elbow, nudge

   • 1667, Roger L’Estrange (translator), The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, London: H. Herringman, “The Sixth Vision of Hell,” pp. 182-183,^[12]

     After this, we saw a great Troop of Women upon the High-way to Hell, with their Bags; and their fellows, at their Heels, ever, and anon, hunching, and Justling one Another.

   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, London: for the author, Volume 2, Letter 1, p. 8,^[13]

     Hickman, a great over-grown, lank-hair’d, chubby boy, who would be hunch’d and punch’d by every-body; and go home, with his finger in his eye, and tell his mother.

   • 1899, Sutton E. Griggs, Imperium in Imperio, Chapter 6,^[14]

     He let his eyes scan the faces of all the white teachers, male and female, but would end up with a stare at the colored man sitting there. Finally, he hunched his seat-mate with his elbow and asked what man that was.

   • 1974, Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name, New York: Bantam, 1975, Chapter 12, p. 40,^[15]

     She hunched me and winked.

   • 1986, Billy Roche, Tumbling Down, Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 1994, Chapter 6, pp. 102-103,^[16]

     […] Crunch burst through, pretending to be in Croke Park or somewhere, hunching me away with his shoulder and holding the ghost of other players at bay as he picked up the football.

6. (intransitive, colloquial) To have a hunch, or make an intuitive guess.

Translations

Derived terms

• hunchback (noun)
• play a hunch, play one's hunch, follow one's hunch

Anagrams

• Chhun

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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 *h?enh?- (“to breathe, blow”); see animus. Cognate with Ancient Greek ?????? (ánemos, “wind”), Old English anda (“anger, envy, zeal”). More at onde.

Noun

anima (plural animas)

1. (chiefly philosophy) The soul or animating principle of a living thing, especially as contrasted with the animus. [from 10th c.]
   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, XXXVIII:

     [W]e cannot chuse but admire the exceeding vividness of the governing faculty or Anima of the Insect, which is able to dispose and regulate so the motive faculties, as to cause every peculiar organ, not onely to move or act so quick, but to do it also so regularly.

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

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• -mania, Amina, Maina, Mania, amain, amnia, mania

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??ni.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a?ni.ma/

Verb

anima

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

Chibcha

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Spanish anima.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anima/

Noun

anima

1. anima, soul

References

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

Esperanto

Etymology

From animo +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?nima/
• Rhymes: -ima

Adjective

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

1. of the soul; spiritual
   • (Can we date this quote?), Simono Pejno (translator), “Revon havas mi” (“I Have a Dream”), speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr. in Washington, DC on August 28, 1963,

     Foje kaj refoje ni levi?u supren al majestaj altejoj, alfrontante fizikan forton kun anima forto.

     Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

2. of the mind, mental, psychological, inner
   • (Can we date this quote?), Heinrich August Luyken, Stranga hereda?o, ?apitro 12,

     Vi bezonas korpan kaj animan ripozon.

     You need physical and mental rest.

French

Verb

anima

1. third-person singular past historic of animer

Anagrams

• mania

Interlingua

Noun

anima (plural animas)

1. soul

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.ni.ma/
• Rhymes: -anima
• Hyphenation: à?ni?ma

Etymology 1

From Latin anima, from animus, from Proto-Italic *anamos, from Proto-Indo-European *h?enh?mos, a nominal derivative of *h?enh?- (“breathe”). Doublet of alma.

Noun

anima f (plural anime)

1. (religion, philosophy, also figuratively) soul
2. The innermost part of something:
   1. (botany) Synonym of durame (“heartwood”)
   2. (lutherie) sound post
   3. (metallurgy) A mould used to create a cavity.
   4. The innermost part of a rope.
   5. (firearms) The inner cavity created by the chamber and the barrel.
   6. (typography) The support of ink rollers.
3. (military, historical) A type of scaled armor.
4. (heraldry) A motto tied to a character.

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• anima in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

anima

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

Anagrams

• mania

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese animar.

Alternative forms

• animá (Barlavento)

Verb

anima

1. (Sotavento) entertain, enliven

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, ?ISBN
• Veiga, Manuel (2012) Dicionário Caboverdiano-Português, Instituto da Biblioteca Nacional e do Livro

Latin

Etymology

See animus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

anima f (genitive animae); first declension

1. soul, spirit, life

2. air, breeze
3. breath

Declension

First-declension noun (dative/ablative plural in -?s or -?bus).

Derived terms

• anima mund?
• anim?sus
• animula

Related terms

Descendants

Noun

anim? f

1. ablative singular of anima

Verb

anim?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of anim?

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)
• anima in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old French

Noun

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

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

Portuguese

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• ânima, ánima

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a?ni?ma
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /??.ni.m?/

Noun

anima f (plural animas)

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

   Synonym: alma

Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a?ni?ma
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?.?ni.m?/, /a.?ni.m?/

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French animer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ni?ma/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a?ni?ma

Verb

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

1. to animate

Conjugation

Related terms

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?nima/, [a?ni.ma]

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.