animal

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Synonyms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Adjective 1.3.1.1 Synonyms 1.3.1.2 Translations 1.4 Related terms 1.5 Derived terms 1.6 See also 2 French 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Noun 2.2.1 Synonyms 2.3 Adjective 2.3.1 Synonyms 2.3.2 Antonyms 3 Latin 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Inflection 3.2.2 Synonyms 3.2.3 Related terms 4 Portuguese 4.1 Noun 4.2 Adjective 5 Romanian 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Adjective 5.2.1 Declension 5.3 Adverb 5.4 Noun 5.4.1 Declension 6 Spanish 6.1 Noun

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[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: ăn'əməl, IPA: /ˈænəməl/, SAMPA: /"{n@m@l/
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[edit] Etymology 1

From Latin animal, a nominal use of an adjective from animale, neuter of animalis adj, from anima ‘breath, spirit’.

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[edit] Noun

animal (plural animals)

1. In scientific usage, 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).

   A cat is an animal, not a plant.

   Humans are also animals, under the scientific definition, as we are not plants.

2. In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human being.
3. In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not birds, fishes, insects etc)
4. (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly.

   My students are animals.

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• (organism): beast, creature

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Latin animalis, 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.

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animal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to animals.

   animal instincts

2. Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.

   animal passions

3. Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
   • 2003: To explain what activated the flesh, ‘animal spirits’ were posited, superfine fluids which shuttled between the mind and the vitals, conveying messages and motion. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 47)
4. (slang, Ireland) Excellent.

[edit] Synonyms

• (of animals):
• (unhindered by social codes): animalistic, bestial, wild

[edit] Translations

[edit] Related terms

• Animalia

[edit] Derived terms

• manimal

[edit] See also

• Wiktionary appendix of animal names

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

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• IPA: [ani'mal]

[edit] Noun

animal m. (plural: animaux)

1. animal

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• bête
• bestiole

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animal m. (f. animale, m. pl. animaux, f. pl. animales)

1. animal

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• bestial

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• végétal

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Etymology

From anima (“‘breath, life’”)

[edit] Noun

animal (genitive animālis); n, third declension

1. animal
2. living creature

[edit] Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	animal	animālia
genitive	animālis	animālium
dative	animālī	animālibus
accusative	animal	animālia
ablative	animālī	animālibus
vocative	animal	animālia

[edit] Synonyms

• animalis, bestia

[edit] Related terms

• anima
• animalis
• animare
• animus

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[edit] Portuguese

[edit] Noun

animal m. (plural animais)

1. animal

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animal m. and f. (plural animais)

1. animal

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Etymology

From Latin animalis through French animal.

[edit] Adjective

animal ^{4 nom/acc forms}

1. animal, animalistic
2. brutal

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[edit] Adverb

animal

1. brutally

[edit] Noun

animal m. (plural animali)

1. animal

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Noun

animal m. (plural animales)

1. animal