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6-letter words (1 found)

ANIMUS,

5-letter words (9 found)

AMINS,MAINS,MANIS,MANUS,MINAS,MINUS,MUNIS,NAMUS,UNAIS,

4-letter words (27 found)

AIMS,AINS,AMIN,AMIS,AMUS,ANIS,ANUS,ISNA,MAIN,MANI,MANS,MASU,MAUN,MINA,MNAS,MUNI,MUNS,NAMS,NAMU,NIMS,SAIM,SAIN,SIMA,SUMI,SUNI,UNAI,UNIS,

3-letter words (33 found)

AIM,AIN,AIS,AMI,AMU,ANI,ANS,INS,ISM,MAN,MAS,MIS,MNA,MUN,MUS,NAM,NAS,NIM,NIS,NUS,SAI,SAM,SAN,SAU,SIM,SIN,SMA,SUI,SUM,SUN,UMS,UNI,UNS,

2-letter words (15 found)

AI,AM,AN,AS,IN,IS,MA,MI,MU,NA,NU,SI,UM,UN,US,

You can make 85 words from animus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of animus

animus

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin animus (“the mind, in a great variety of meanings: the rational soul in man, intellect, consciousness, will, intention, courage, spirit, sensibility, feeling, passion, pride, vehemence, wrath, etc., the breath, life, soul”), from Proto-Italic *anamos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos, from *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”). Closely related to Latin anima, which is a feminine form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæ.nɪ.məs/
  • Rhymes: -ænɪməs
  • Homophone: animous

Noun

animus (usually uncountable, plural animuses)

  1. The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions.
  2. A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will.
    Synonym: bad blood
  3. (law) intention, motivation (of a legal person)
  4. (Jungian psychology) The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality.

Derived terms

  • animus furandi (“intent to steal”)
  • animus injuriandi (“intent to insult”)
  • animus nocendi (“intent to harm”)

Related terms

  • anima
  • animose
  • animosity
  • equanimity
  • unanimous

Translations

Further reading

  • “animus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “animus”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • A minus, Anusim, Usmani, amusin', munias, sunami

Esperanto

Verb

animus

  1. conditional of animi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *anamos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos, a nominal derivative of *h₂enh₁- +‎ *-mos, in which the root means "to breathe".

Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind, breeze”), Old Armenian հողմ (hołm, “wind”), Old Frisian omma (“breath”), English onde (“breath”) (dialectal), Norwegian ånde (“breath”), and possibly Sanskrit अनिल (ánila, “air, wind”); compare also Tocharian B āñme (“self; soul”) and Old Armenian անձն (anjn, “person”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈa.ni.mus/, [ˈänɪmʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.ni.mus/, [ˈäːnimus]

Noun

animus m (genitive animī); second declension

  1. life, life force, soul, vitality (that life-giving aspect which animates a thing)
    Synonyms: lux, vīta
    bono animo esse ― to be sure, to be confident
  2. conscience, intellect, mind, reason, sensibility, understanding (the intellectual dimension of the human mind in general; the seat of the rational and other thoughts a person experiences)
    Synonyms: cōnscientia, intellēctus, mēns
    animum adicio ― I address my mind to
  3. heart, mind, spirit (the affective dimension of the human mind in general; the seat of the emotions and feelings a person experiences)
    Synonyms: anima, cor, spīritus
  4. affect, emotion, feeling, impulse, passion (the essence of that which is situated within the affective mind)
    Synonyms: adfectus, affectus, sēnsus, spōns
    movere animum alicuius ― to affect or impress someone’s mind (for example, enrage him)
  5. certain particular emotional aspects of one's affective makeup: affection; aggression; courage; pride; will (“firmity or fixity of purpose”), determination, firmness, resoluteness, resolve; wrath, anger, ire
    Synonyms: spīritus, fortitūdō, fīdūcia, virtūs
  6. motive, motivation, reason (any intellectually or emotionally based incentive to act in a particular manner)
    Synonym: mōtīvum (Late Latin)
  7. aim, aspiration, design, idea, intent, intention, plan, purpose, resolution (that which exists in the mind as a formulation, and causes a subject to act or to behave in a particular manner)
    Synonyms: cōnsilium, intentiō, mēns, propositum, fīnis, resolūtiō, voluntās
    • late 2nd century BCE, Lucius Accius (fragment):
  8. (metonymically) disposition, inclination, nature, temperament (the inherent emotional disposition of a human being, by extension of the affective dimension)
    Synonyms: mōs, dispositiō, inclīnātiō, temperamentum
  9. affect, mood, temper (the instant mental state of a human being)
  10. (colloquial, metonymically) beloved. dearest, heart, soul (as a term of endearment)
  11. (in the plural) bravado, elation, high spirits
    adicere/facere animos alicui ― to boost someone's spirits

Usage notes

Latin animus has a broad and disparate semantic field of apparent incongruity. At its most basic, animus means "that which animates" a thing, making that thing alive and/or causing it to act and behave in a particular way. It is this meaning which ties the disparate senses of animus together and renders them commensurate. Subsumed under this basic meaning are: the power which renders life itself; the mind, both rational (the intellect) and emotional (the affect); individual rational thoughts (products of the intellect); emotions (products of the affect, both generally and specifically); motivations with both internal and external etiologies; the purposes and intentions which derive from thoughts and emotions; general dispositions; and instantaneous mental states.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • anima
  • animō

Descendants

  • → Catalan: ànim
  • → English: animus
  • → Italian: animo
    • → Dutch: animo
  • → Portuguese: animus, ânimo
  • → Spanish: ánimo

References

  • “animus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • animus in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • “animus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • animus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • animus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin animus (“the soul, thoughts, intellect, ideas, will, thoughts, courage, etc.; the breath, life”), closely related to anima (“air, breath, spirit, life force”). From Proto-Italic *anamos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos, from *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”). Doublet of ânimo.

Noun

animus m (uncountable)

  1. (Jungian psychology) animus (the masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality)

Related terms

  • anima

Source: wiktionary.org