animal
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
From Middle English animal, from Old French animal, from Latin animal, a nominal use of an adjective from animale, neuter of animālis, from anima (“breath, spirit”). Displaced native Middle English deor, der (“animal”) (from Old English dēor (“animal”)), Middle English reother (“animal, neat”) (from Old English hrīþer, hrȳþer (“neat, ox”)).
Noun
animal (plural animals)
- (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).
- A cat is an animal, not a plant. Humans are also animals, under the scientific definition, as we are not plants.
- Synonyms: beast, creature
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- (loosely) Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
- Synonym: beast
- (loosely, colloquial) Any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.).
- 2013 July-August, Henry Petroski, “Geothermal Energy”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 4:
- Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
- (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
- My students are animals.
- 2019, “Bad Guy”, Finneas O'Connell and Billie Eilish O'Connell (lyrics), performed by Billie Eilish:
- Own me, I'll let you play the role
I'll be your animal
- (informal) A person of a particular type.
- He's a political animal.
- Matter, thing.
- a whole different animal
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:animal
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Latin animālis, 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)
- Of or relating to animals.
- Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
- animal passions
- Synonyms: animalistic, beastly, bestial, untamed, wild
- 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.
- 2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004), page 47:
- (slang, Ireland) Excellent
Derived terms
- animal feed
- animalistic
- animal liberation
- animal magnetism
- animal rights
- manimal
- party animal
- political animal
- power animal
- anipal
- spirit animal
- advice animal
- animal activist
- animal charcoal
- animal cracker
- animal dentistry
- animal experimentation
- animal fat
- animal flower
- animal fries
- animal heat
- animal husbandry
- animal kingdom
- animal pole
- animal product
- animal registry
- animal science
- animal shelter
- animal spirits
- animal tester
- animal testing
- animal welfare
- animal welfarist
- animal-like
- assistance animal
- balloon animal
- companion animal
- compound animal
- draft animal
- draught animal
- emotional support animal
- farm animal
- funny animal
- go the entire animal
- moss animal
- pack animal
- plant-animal
- plush animal
- rare animal
- scape-animal
- service animal
- stuffed animal
- therapy animal
- wheel animal
- wild animal
- working animal
Translations
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See also
Further reading
- “animal”, in 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, →OCLC.
- animal in Britannica Dictionary
- animal in Ozdic collocation dictionary
- animal in WordReference English Collocations
Anagrams
Asturian
Etymology
Adjective
animal (epicene, plural animales)
Noun
animal m (plural animales)
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.niˈmal]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [a.niˈmal]
Audio (Valencian): (file) - Rhymes: -al
Adjective
animal m or f (masculine and feminine plural animals)
Noun
animal m (plural animals)
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, 2024
- “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
Borrowed from Spanish animal, from Latin animal, a nominal use of an adjective from animale, neuter of animālis, from anima (“breath, spirit”).
Pronunciation
Noun
animál
- animal
- (derogatory) a contemptible person
- (sometimes humurous), a crazy person
Adjective
animál
- (sometimes humorous), crazy
- contemptible, deserving contempt
- ruthless; without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless
Interjection
animál
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin animal. Compare the archaic inherited doublet aumaille and its variant armaille, both from the Latin neuter plural animālia.
Pronunciation
Noun
animal m (plural animaux)
Derived terms
Adjective
animal (feminine animale, masculine plural animaux, feminine plural animales)
Further reading
- “animal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Galician
Etymology
Adjective
animal m or f (plural animais)
Noun
animal m (plural animais)
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French animal, from Latin animal.
Noun
animal
Ilocano
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
animál
Interlingua
Pronunciation
Noun
animal (plural animales)
Kabuverdianu
Etymology
From Portuguese animal.
Noun
animal
Latin
Etymology
From animāle, nominative neuter singular of animālis.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈa.ni.mal/, [ˈänɪmäɫ̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.ni.mal/, [ˈäːnimäl]
Noun
animal n (genitive animālis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | animal | animālia |
Genitive | animālis | animālium |
Dative | animālī | animālibus |
Accusative | animal | animālia |
Ablative | animālī | animālibus |
Vocative | animal | animālia |
Synonyms
Related terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: nãmalj, nãmaljiu
- Corsican: animale
- Dalmatian: animuol, animul
- Franco-Provençal: armalye
- Old French: animal
- Friulian: nemâl
- Italian: animale
- → Maltese: annimal
- Old Galician-Portuguese: almallo
- Romagnol: animêl
- Romanian: nămaie
- Sicilian: armali, armalu
- Spanish: alimaña, almaje
- Tarantino: anemale
- Venetian: animal, anemal
- → Aragonese: animal
- → Asturian: animal
- → Basque: animalia
- → Breton: aneval
- → Catalan: animal
- → Franco-Provençal: animal
- → Friulian: animâl
- → Galician: animal
- → Ido: animalo (also from various others)
- → Interlingua: animal
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- → Occitan: animal
- → Portuguese: animal
- → Romansch: animal
- → Spanish: animal
- → Welsh: anifail
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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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.
- animate and inanimate nature: animata (animalia) inanimaque (not inanimata)
- domestic animals: animalia quae nobiscum degunt (Plin. 8. 40)
- animate and inanimate nature: animata (animalia) inanimaque (not inanimata)
Middle English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old French animal, from Latin animal.
Alternative forms
Noun
animal (plural animales)
- An animal (considered to include humans)
Descendants
References
- “animāl, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-16.
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Adjective
animal
Descendants
- English: animal
References
- “animāl, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-16.
Middle French
Noun
animal m (plural animaux or animaulx)
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Portuguese animal and Spanish animal.
Noun
animal
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin animal. Doublet of alimária.
Pronunciation
Adjective
animal m or f (plural animais)
- (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, […]
- 2000, Julio S. Inglez de Sousa et al., Enciclopédia agrícola brasileira: E-H, Editora da Universidade de São Paulo, page 225:
- (derogatory, of a person) brute (senseless, unreasoning)
- (Brazil, colloquial) 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.
- 2015, Juliana Rosenthal K., Save the Day, Buqui, page 52:
Inflection
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:animal.
Noun
animal m (plural animais)
- (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.
- 2020, Petrônio Braz, Léxico dos Gerais, Chiado Books, page 481:
- (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, […]
- 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:
- (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?
- 1979, Wilson Bacelar de Oliveira, Os meus fantasmas, Editora Comunicação, page 490:
- (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
- 2007, Creso Balduíno, O verso do ser, Editora Revan, page 170:
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:animal.
Derived terms
- animal de estimação
- animalizar
- animalzão (augmentative)
- animalzinho (diminutive)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French animal, from Latin animal. Doublet of nămaie.
Pronunciation
Adjective
animal m or n (feminine singular animală, masculine plural animali, feminine and neuter plural animale)
Declension
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | animal | animală | animali | animale | ||
definite | animalul | animala | animalii | animalele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | animal | animale | animali | animale | ||
definite | animalului | animalei | animalelor | animalilor |
Adverb
animal
Noun
animal n (plural animale)
Declension
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) animal | animalul | (niște) animale | animalele |
genitive/dative | (unui) animal | animalului | (unor) animale | animalelor |
vocative | animalule | animalelor |
Romansch
Etymology
Noun
animal m (plural animals)
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
Adjective
animal m or f (masculine and feminine plural animales)
Noun
animal m (plural animales)
Derived terms
Related terms
Anagrams
Further reading
- “animal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
animál
Derived terms
Tok Pisin
Etymology
Noun
animal
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