The word animal in other languages

• Defenition of the word animal

  • Any living organism characterized by voluntary movement, the possession of cells with noncellulose cell walls and specialized sense organs enabling rapid response to stimuli, and the ingestion of complex organic substances such as plants and other animals.
  • Any living organism of the Animalia reign except human
  • Of or relating to animals.
  • of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from an animal or animals; «the animal kingdom»; «animal instincts»; «animal fats»
  • a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
  • of the appetites and passions of the body; «animal instincts»; «carnal knowledge»; «fleshly desire»; «a sensual delight in eating»; «music is the only sensual pleasure without vice»
  • marked by the appetites and passions of the body

Synonyms for the word animal

• • animate being
  • beast
  • being
  • bodily
  • brute
  • carnal
  • creature
  • fauna
  • fleshly
  • inborn
  • innate
  • instinctive
  • living thing
  • mammal
  • monster
  • physical
  • sensual
  • subconscious
  • swine
  • visceral
  • zoon

Similar words in the animal

• • animal
  • animal’s
  • animallike
  • birdlike
  • cranelike
  • fishlike
  • horselike
  • insectlike
  • physical

Meronymys for the word animal

• • animal kingdom
  • animal tissue
  • Animalia
  • caput
  • face
  • head
  • kingdom Animalia

Hyponyms for the word animal

• • acrodont
  • adult
  • biped
  • captive
  • chordate
  • conceptus
  • creepy-crawly
  • critter
  • darter
  • dead animal
  • domestic animal
  • domesticated animal
  • ectotherm
  • embryo
  • feeder
  • female
  • fertilized egg
  • fictional animal
  • game
  • giant
  • herbivore
  • hexapod
  • homeotherm
  • homoiotherm
  • homotherm
  • insectivore
  • invertebrate
  • larva
  • male
  • marine animal
  • marine creature
  • mate
  • metazoan
  • migrator
  • molter
  • moulter
  • mutant
  • offspring
  • omnivore
  • peeper
  • pest
  • pet
  • pleurodont
  • poikilotherm
  • predator
  • predatory animal
  • prey
  • pureblood
  • purebred
  • quarry
  • racer
  • range animal
  • scavenger
  • sea animal
  • sea creature
  • stayer
  • stunt
  • survivor
  • thoroughbred
  • varment
  • varmint
  • vermin
  • work animal
  • young
  • zooplankton

Hypernyms for the word animal

• • being
  • creature
  • life form
  • living thing
  • organism

Antonyms for the word animal

• • human
  • mineral
  • plant
  • vegetable

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• (UK, US) enPR: ăn’ĭməl, IPA^(key): /ˈænɪməl/

Etymology 1[edit]

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[edit]

animal (plural animals)

1. (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

   • 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 133:

     It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.

2. (loosely) Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.

   Synonym: beast

3. (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.

4. (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.

   My students are animals.

   Synonyms: brute, monster, savage

5. (informal) A person of a particular type.

   He’s a political animal.

6. Matter, thing.

   a whole different animal

Hyponyms[edit]

• See also Thesaurus:animal

Derived terms[edit]

• animalist

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Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

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[edit]

animal (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to animals.

   animal instincts

   Synonyms: beastly, bestial

2. Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.

   animal passions

   Synonyms: animalistic, beastly, bestial, untamed, wild

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

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

See also[edit]

• Wiktionary appendix of terms relating to animals

Further reading[edit]

• animal at 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[edit]

• Alamin, Almain, Malian, Manila, Milana, al-Amin, almain, aminal, lamina, maalin, manila

Asturian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin animal.

Adjective[edit]

animal (epicene, plural animales)

1. animal

Noun[edit]

animal m (plural animales)

1. animal

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin animal.

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ə.niˈmal/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.niˈmal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective[edit]

animal (masculine and feminine plural animals)

1. animal

Noun[edit]

animal m (plural animals)

1. animal

Derived terms[edit]

• animalada
• animalitzar (“to animalize”)

Further reading[edit]

• “animal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “animal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish animal, from Latin animal, a nominal use of an adjective from animale, neuter of animālis, from anima (“breath, spirit”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧mal
• IPA^(key): /ʔaniˈmal/, [ʔʌ.n̪ɪˈmal̪]

Noun[edit]

animál

1. animal
2. (derogatory) a contemptible person
3. (sometimes humurous) a crazy person

Adjective[edit]

animál

1. (sometimes humorous) crazy
2. contemptible, deserving contempt
3. ruthless; without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless

Interjection[edit]

animál

1. (vulgar) used as an expression of disgust, anger, etc.

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin animal. Compare the archaic inherited doublet aumaille and its variant armaille, both from the Latin neuter plural animālia.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.mal/
• Homophones: animale, animales

Noun[edit]

animal m (plural animaux)

1. animal

   Synonyms: bête, bestiole

Derived terms[edit]

Adjective[edit]

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

1. animal

   Synonym: bestial

   Antonym: végétal

Further reading[edit]

• “animal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams[edit]

• lamina

Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin animal.

Adjective[edit]

animal m or f (plural animais)

1. animal

Noun[edit]

animal m (plural animais)

1. animal

Haitian Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French animal, from Latin animal.

Noun[edit]

animal

1. animal

   Synonym: zannimo

Ilocano[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish animal.

Pronunciation[edit]

• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧mal
• IPA^(key): /ʔaniˈmal/, [ʔɐ.niˈmal]

Noun[edit]

animál

1. animal

   Synonym: ayup

Interlingua[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /a.niˈmal/

Noun[edit]

animal (plural animales)

1. animal

Kabuverdianu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Portuguese animal.

Noun[edit]

animal

1. beast
2. animal

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From animāle, nominative neuter singular of animālis.

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ni.mal/, [ˈänɪmäɫ̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈa.ni.mal/, [ˈäːnimäl]

Noun[edit]

animal n (genitive animālis); third declension

1. animal
2. living creature

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

Synonyms[edit]

• bestia

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Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

• “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 English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /aniˈmaːl/, /aˈnimal/

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Old French animal, from Latin animal.

Alternative forms[edit]

• animale

Noun[edit]

animal (plural animales)

1. An animal (considered to include humans)

Descendants[edit]

• English: animal
• Scots: ainimal

References[edit]

• “animāl, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-16.

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from Latin animālis.

Alternative forms[edit]

• animale, animall, anymal, anymall

Adjective[edit]

animal

1. Related to the soul or spirit of a living being (i.e. sentience or sapience)

Descendants[edit]

• English: animal

References[edit]

• “animāl, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-16.

Middle French[edit]

Noun[edit]

animal m (plural animaux or animaulx)

1. animal

   Synonym: beste

Papiamentu[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Portuguese animal and Spanish animal.

Noun[edit]

animal

1. beast
2. animal

Portuguese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin animal. Doublet of alimária.

Pronunciation[edit]

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧mal

Adjective[edit]

animal m or f (plural animais, comparable, comparative mais animal, superlative o mais animal or animalíssimo)

1. (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, […]

2. (derogatory, of a person) brute (senseless, unreasoning)
3. (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.

Quotations[edit]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:animal.

Noun[edit]

animal m (plural animais)

1. (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.

2. (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, […]

   Synonyms: besta, bicho

3. (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?

   Synonyms: idiota, retardado, burro, imbecil, débil mental, besta

4. (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

Quotations[edit]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:animal.

Derived terms[edit]

• animal de estimação
• animalizar
• animalzão (augmentative)
• animalzinho (diminutive)

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French animal, from Latin animal. Doublet of nămaie.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /a.niˈmal/

Adjective[edit]

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

1. animal, animalistic
2. brutal

Declension[edit]

Adverb[edit]

animal

1. brutally

Noun[edit]

animal n (plural animale)

1. animal

Declension[edit]

Romansch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin animal.

Noun[edit]

animal m (plural animals)

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

Synonyms[edit]

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) biestg
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan) bestga
• (Sursilvan) tier, bestia
• (Puter, Vallader) bes-cha

Spanish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin animal. See also alimaña, an inherited doublet.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /aniˈmal/ [a.niˈmal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧mal

Adjective[edit]

animal (plural animales)

1. animal

Noun[edit]

animal m (plural animales)

1. animal

Derived terms[edit]

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Further reading[edit]

• “animal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Anagrams[edit]

• lámina
• lamina

Tagalog[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish animal.

Pronunciation[edit]

• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧mal
• IPA^(key): /ʔaniˈmal/, [ʔɐ.nɪˈmal]

Noun[edit]

animál

1. beast; brute; creature

   Synonyms: halimaw, hayop

2. (derogatory) brutish person; inhuman person

   Synonyms: hayop, bruto, bestiya

Derived terms[edit]

Tok Pisin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English animal.

Noun[edit]

animal

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

   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:25:

   Synonym: abus

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ANIMAL

From Latin animal (n), from animālis (adj) living, breathing.

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The first definition of animal in the dictionary is any living organism characterized by voluntary movement, the possession of cells with noncellulose cell walls and specialized sense organs enabling rapid response to stimuli, and the ingestion of complex organic substances such as plants and other animals related prefix zoo-. Other definition of animal is any mammal, esp any mammal except man. Animal is also a brutish person.

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