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=====Synonyms=====
=====Synonyms=====
* {{sense|organism}} {{l|en|beast}}, {{l|en|creature}}
* {{sense|organism}} [[beast]], [[creature]]
* {{sense|non-human organism}} {{l|en|beast}}
* {{sense|non-human organism}} [[beast]]
* {{sense|person who behaves wildly}} {{l|en|brute}}, {{l|en|monster}}, {{l|en|savage}}
* {{sense|person who behaves wildly}} [[brute]], [[monster]], [[savage]]


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=====Related terms=====
=====Related terms=====
* {{l|en|anima}}
* [[anima]]
* [[Animalia]]
* {{l|en|animus}}
* {{l|en|animate}}
* [[animate]]
* [[animus]]
* {{l|en|Animalia}}


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=====Synonyms=====
=====Synonyms=====
* {{sense|of animals}} {{l|en|beastly}}, {{l|en|bestial}}
* {{sense|of animals}} [[beastly]], [[bestial]]
* {{sense|unhindered by social codes}} {{l|en|animalistic}}, {{l|en|beastly}}, {{l|en|bestial}}, {{l|en|untamed}}, {{l|en|wild}}
* {{sense|unhindered by social codes}} [[animalistic]], [[beastly]], [[bestial]], [[untamed]], [[wild]]


=====Derived terms=====
=====Derived terms=====

Revision as of 23:25, 17 November 2018

See also: Animal and animâl

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English animal, from Old French animal, from Latin animal, a nominal use of an adjective from animale, neuter of animalis, 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)

  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.
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  2. In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
  3. In non-scientific usage, 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.
    My students are animals.
  5. (informal) A person of a particular type.
    He's a political animal.
  6. Matter, thing.
    a whole different animal
Synonyms
Hyponyms
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Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.

Adjective

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, 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.
Synonyms
Derived terms

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Translations

See also

References

  • animal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams


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

Noun

animal m (plural animals)

  1. animal

Adjective

animal m or f (masculine and feminine plural animals)

  1. animal

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 animalis, 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 Lua error in Module:parameters at line 573: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "aumaille" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. and its variant Lua error in Module:parameters at line 573: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "armaille" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., both from the Latin neuter plural animālia.

Pronunciation

Noun

animal m (plural animaux)

  1. animal

Synonyms

Derived terms

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Adjective

animal (feminine animale, masculine plural animaux, feminine plural animales)

  1. animal

Synonyms

Antonyms

Further reading

Anagrams


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

Synonyms


Interlingua

Pronunciation

Noun

animal (plural animales)

  1. animal

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese animal.

Noun

animal

  1. beast
  2. animal

Latin

Etymology

From animāle, nominative neuter singular of animālis.

Pronunciation

Noun

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  1. animal
  2. living creature

Declension

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Synonyms

Descendants

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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)

Middle French

Noun

animal m (plural animaux or animaulx)

  1. animal

Synonyms


Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese animal and Spanish animal.

Noun

animal

  1. beast
  2. animal

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin animal. See also Lua error in Module:parameters at line 573: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "alimária" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

Noun

animal m (plural animais)

  1. (biology) animal (any member of the kingdom Animalia)
  2. (non-scientific usage) animal (an animal other than a human, especially a vertebrate)
  3. (colloquial) twat; idiot; moron
  4. (colloquial) beast (a cruel person)

Quotations

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Synonyms

Derived terms

Adjective

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  1. (biology) animal (relating to animals)
  2. (Brazil, slang) cool; awesome

Inflection

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Quotations

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French animal, from Latin animal. Lua error in Module:parameters at line 573: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "nămaie" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E..

Pronunciation

Adjective

animal m or n (feminine singular animală, masculine plural animali, feminine and neuter plural animale)

  1. animal, animalistic
  2. brutal

Declension

singular plural
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

  1. brutally

Noun

animal n (plural animale)

  1. animal

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative animal animalul animale animalele
genitive-dative animal animalului animale animalelor
vocative animalule animalelor

Romansch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin animal.

Noun

animal m (plural animals)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) animal

Synonyms


Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin animal. See also Lua error in Module:parameters at line 573: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "alimaña" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation

Noun

animal m (plural animales)

  1. animal

Derived terms

(diminutive animalillo or animalito)

Adjective

animal m or f (masculine and feminine plural animales)

  1. animal

Anagrams


Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English animal.

Noun

animal

  1. animal (members of Kingdom Animalia that are not humans)
    Synonym: abus

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