animalia

See also: Animalia

Basque

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin animal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /animalia/ [a.ni.ma.li.a]

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• Rhymes: -ia, -a
• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧ma‧li‧a

Noun

animalia anim

1. animal

Declension

Declension of animalia (animate, ending in -a)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	animalia	animalia	animaliak
ergative	animaliak	animaliak	animaliek
dative	animaliari	animaliari	animaliei
genitive	animaliaren	animaliaren	animalien
comitative	animaliarekin	animaliarekin	animaliekin
causative	animaliarengatik	animaliarengatik	animaliengatik
benefactive	animaliarentzat	animaliarentzat	animalientzat
instrumental	animaliaz	animaliaz	animaliez
inessive	animaliarengan	animaliarengan	animaliengan
locative	—	—	—
allative	animaliarengana	animaliarengana	animaliengana
terminative	animaliarenganaino	animaliarenganaino	animalienganaino
directive	animaliarenganantz	animaliarenganantz	animalienganantz
destinative	animaliarenganako	animaliarenganako	animalienganako
ablative	animaliarengandik	animaliarengandik	animaliengandik
partitive	animaliarik	—	—
prolative	animaliatzat	—	—

Derived terms

• basanimalia (“wild animal”)

Related terms

• animalista

Further reading

• “animalia”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “animalia”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Ladino

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish animalia, from Latin animālia, plural of animal. Doublet of alimanya and animal.

Noun

animalia f (Hebrew spelling אנימאלייה)

1. animal (beast)

   Synonym: animal

   Hyponym: alimanya

   • 2002, Aki Yerushalayim‎^[1], numbers 68–72, page 59:

     […] i no digas: fulano es fermozo i yo no, ke bien saves ke deske el ombre es muerto, ke no se kuenta salvo por animalia muerta.

     And don’t say: so and so is handsome and I’m not; you know well that since the man is dead that he doesn’t count except as a dead animal.

Latin

Noun

animālia n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of animal

Descendants

• French: aumaille
• Old Spanish: alimanna, animalia
  • Ladino: alimanya, animalia, אלימאנייה, אנימאלייה
  • Spanish: alimaña, animalia
• Portuguese: armalho (Alto Minhoto)

References

• "animalia", 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)

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• alimanna

Etymology

Inherited from Latin animālia, plural of animal. Doublet of animal.

Noun

animalia f (plural animalias)

1. animal (beast)

   Synonym: animal

Descendants

• Ladino: alimanya, animalia, אלימאנייה, אנימאלייה
• Spanish: alimaña, animalia

References

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “animalia”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume I, Chapel Hill, page 38

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aniˈmalja/ [a.niˈma.lja]
• Rhymes: -alja
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧ma‧lia

Noun

animalia f (plural animalias)

1. uncommon form of alimaña

Further reading

• “animalia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10