English

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.
   • 2005, Christian Science Monitor, April 22

     The current row arose swiftly, sparked both by historical animus and jockeying over future power and place in Asia - and it surprised many observers in the depth of antipathy on both sides.

3. (Jungian psychology) The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality.

Related terms

• anima
• animose
• animosity
• equanimity
• unanimous

Translations

External links

• animus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• animus in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• A minus

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Verb

animus

1. conditional of animi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *anamos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos, a nominal derivative of *h₂enh₁- ‎(“breathe”).

Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄνεμος ‎(ánemos, “wind, breeze”), Old Armenian հողմ ‎(hołm, “wind”), Old Frisian omma ‎(“breath”), English dialectal onde ‎(“breath”), 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/

Noun

animus m ‎(genitive animī); second declension

1. mind, soul, life force

   Tibi bene ex animo volo.‎

   I wish you well from my soul.

   • Seneca

     Animus se ipse alit.‎

     The mind nourishes itself.

2. courage, will

   Proclamasset neque votum sibi neque animum desse confodiendi eum.‎

   He had announced that he lacked neither the determination nor the courage/will to kill him.

Inflection

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (mind): mēns
• (soul): anima

Related terms

• anima
• animō

References

• animus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• animus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “animus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to attract universal attention: omnium animos or mentes in se convertere
    
  • to turn one's eyes (ears, attention) towards an object: oculos (aures, animum) advertere ad aliquid
    
  • a man loses his senses, becomes unconscious: animus relinquit aliquem
    
  • Fortune makes men shortsighted, infatuates them: fortuna caecos homines efficit, animos occaecat
    
  • to become estranged, alienated from some one: voluntatemor animum alicuius a se abalienare, aliquem a se abalienare or alienare
    
  • gratitude: gratus (opp. ingratus) animus
    
  • to reconcile two people; to be a mediator: reconciliare alicuius animum or simply aliquem alicui
    
  • to be reconciled; to make up a quarrel: sibi aliquem, alicuius animum reconciliare or reconciliari alicui
    
  • to hold aloof from all amusement: animum a voluptate sevocare
    
  • for one's own diversion; to satisfy a whim: voluptatis or animi causa (B. G. 5. 12)
    
  • to recruit oneself, seek relaxation: animum relaxare, reficere, recreare or simply se reficere, se recreare, refici, recreari (ex aliqua re)
    
  • to indulge oneself: animum or simply se remittere
    
  • to turn one's attention to a thing: animum attendere ad aliquid
    
  • an idea strikes me: haec cogitatio subit animum
    
  • to draw away some one's attention from a thing: alicuius animum ab aliqua re abducere
    
  • to direct one's attention..: cogitationem, animum in aliquid intendere (Acad. 4. 46)
    
  • if I am not mistaken: nisi (animus) me fallit
    
  • according to my strong conviction: ex animi mei sententia (vid. sect. XI. 2)
    
  • to persuade oneself to..: animum inducere c. Inf. (not in animum inducere)
    
  • to cultivate the mind: animum, ingenium excolere (not colere)
    
  • mental culture: animi, ingenii cultus (not cultura)
    
  • to apply oneself to the study of philosophy: animum appellere or se applicare ad philosophiam
    
  • to bring forward a proof of the immortality of the soul: argumentum afferre, quo animos immortales esse demonstratur
    
  • to make an impression on one's audience: animos audientium permovere, inflammare
    
  • to rivet the attention of..: animos tenere
    
  • to become a writer, embrace a literary career: animum ad scribendum appellere, applicare
    
  • humour; disposition: animi affectio or habitus (De Inv. 2. 5)
    
  • to try to divine a person's disposition: animos tentare (Cluent. 63. 176)
    
  • to make a person change his intention: animum alicuius or simply aliquem flectere
    
  • the emotions, feelings: animi motus, commotio, permotio
    
  • to touch a person's heart, move him: alicuius animum commovere
    
  • to make an impression on a person's mind: alicuius animum pellere
    
  • what sort of humour are you in: quid tibi animi est?
    
  • to put a man in a pleasurable frame of mind: animum alicuius ad laetitiam excitare
    
  • I have become callous to all pain: animus meus ad dolorem obduruit (Fam. 2. 16. 1)
    
  • anxiety gnaws at the heart and incapacitates it: aegritudo exest animum planeque conficit (Tusc. 3. 13. 27)
    
  • to be brave, courageous: bonum animum habere
    
  • to take courage: animus alicui accedit, crescit
    
  • to take courage: animum capere, colligere
    
  • to take courage again: animum recipere (Liv. 2. 50)
    
  • to succeed in encouraging a person: animum facere, addere alicui
    
  • to strengthen, confirm a person's courage: animum alicuius confirmare
    
  • to increase a person's courage: animum alicui augere (B. G. 7. 70)
    
  • to re-inspire courage: animum alicuius redintegrare
    
  • their spirits are broken: animus frangitur, affligitur, percellitur, debilitatur
    
  • to fire with courage: animos militum accendere
    
  • their courage is ebbing: animi cadunt
    
  • to lose courage; to despair: animum demittere
    
  • to encourage a person: erigere alicuius animum or aliquem
    
  • to inspire the spiritless and prostrate with new vigour: excitare animum iacentem et afflictum (opp. frangere animum)
    
  • to disconcert a person: animum alicuius de statu, de gradu demovere (more strongly depellere, deturbare)
    
  • to hover between hope and fear: inter spem metumque suspensum animi esse
    
  • to be in suspense, waiting for a thing: exspectatione alicuius rei pendēre (animi) (Leg. Agr. 2. 25. 66)
    
  • (ambiguous) to love deeply: aliquem ex animo or ex animi sententia amare (Q. Fr. 1. 1. 5)
    
  • enthusiasm: ardor, inflammatio animi, incitatio mentis, mentis vis incitatior
    
  • to damp, chill enthusiasm: ardorem animi restinguere
    
  • his enthusiasm has abated, cooled down: ardor animi resēdit, consedit
    
  • my mind forebodes misfortune: animus praesāgit malum
    
  • to cool one's anger: animum explere
    
  • to prevent some one from growing angry, appease his anger: animum alicuius ab iracundia revocare
    
  • to abandon oneself to vice: animum vitiis dedere
    
  • to have self-control; to restrain oneself, master one's inclinations: animum regere, coercere, cohibere
    
  • to have self-control; to restrain oneself, master one's inclinations: animum vincere (Marcell. 3. 8)
    
  • unrestrained, unbridled lust: indomitae animi cupiditates
    
  • to eradicate passion from the mind: animi perturbationes exstirpare
    
  • to hurt some one's feelings: offendere aliquem, alicuius animum
    
  • to feel hurt by something: offendi aliqua re (animus offenditur)
    
  • a guilty conscience: animus male sibi conscius
    
  • on principle: ratione; animi quodam iudicio
    
  • character: natura et mores; vita moresque; indoles animi ingeniique; or simply ingenium, indoles, natura, mores
    
  • inconsistency; changeability: mobilitas et levitas animi
    
  • to fill the souls of one's audience with devotion: audientium animos religione perfundere (Liv. 10. 388)
    
  • to have power over the people by trading on their religious scruples: religione obstrictos habere multitudinis animos (Liv. 6. 1. 10)
    
  • I swear on my conscience: ex animi mei sententia iuro
    
  • an independent spirit: a partibus rei publicae animus liber (Sall. Cat. 4. 2)
    
  • to encourage, embolden the soldiery: animos militum confirmare (B. G. 5. 49)
    
  • (ambiguous) to picture a thing to oneself; to imagine: oculis, ante oculos (animo) proponere aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to be well-disposed towards..: benevolo animo esse in aliquem
    
  • (ambiguous) to look favourably upon; to support: propenso animo, studio esse or propensa voluntate esse in aliquem (opp. averso animo esse ab aliquo)
    
  • (ambiguous) to indulge oneself: animo or simply sibi indulgere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be magnanimous, broad-minded: magno animo esse
    
  • (ambiguous) (1) to be attentive; (2) to keep one's presence of mind: animo adesse
    
  • (ambiguous) to obscure the mental vision: mentis quasi luminibus officere (vid. sect. XIII. 6) or animo caliginem offundere
    
  • (ambiguous) to form an idea of a thing, imagine, conceive: animo, cogitatione aliquid fingere (or simply fingere, but without sibi), informare
    
  • (ambiguous) to form an idea of a thing, imagine, conceive: animo concipere aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to form a conception of a thing beforehand: animo, cogitatione aliquid praecipere (Off 1. 23. 81)
    
  • (ambiguous) to grasp a thing mentally: animo, mente, cogitatione aliquid comprehendere, complecti
    
  • (ambiguous) a vague notion presents itself to my mind: aliquid animo meo obversatur (cf. sect. III, s. v. oculi)
    
  • (ambiguous) innate ideas: notiones animo (menti) insitae, innatae
    
  • (ambiguous) to form a conception, notion of a thing: notionem or rationem alicuius rei in animo informare or animo concipere
    
  • (ambiguous) to have formed an ideal notion of a thing: comprehensam quandam animo speciem (alicuius rei) habere
    
  • (ambiguous) to conceive an ideal: singularem quandam perfectionis imaginem animo concipere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be imbibing false opinions: opiniones falsas animo imbibere
    
  • (ambiguous) to get a mistaken notion into the mind: errorem animo imbibere
    
  • (ambiguous) to relieve a man of his scruple: scrupulum ex animo alicuius evellere (Rosc. Am. 2. 6)
    
  • (ambiguous) to think over, consider a thing: secum (cum animo) reputare aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to think over, consider a thing: considerare in, cum animo, secum aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to think over, consider a thing: agitare (in) mente or (in) animo aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) I am resolved; it is my intention: in animo habeo or mihi est in animo c. Inf.
    
  • (ambiguous) to think of a person with a grateful sense of his goodness: nomen alicuius grato animo prosequi
    
  • (ambiguous) the memory of this will never fade from my mind: numquam ex animo meo memoria illius rei discedet
    
  • (ambiguous) a thing escapes, vanishes from the memory: aliquid excidit e memoria, effluit, excidit ex animo
    
  • (ambiguous) a thing is deeply impressed on the mind: aliquid in animo haeret, penitus insedit or infixum est
    
  • (ambiguous) to impress a thing on one's memory, mind: aliquid animo mentique penitus mandare (Catil. 1. 11. 27)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be humorously inclined: animo prompto esse ad iocandum
    
  • (ambiguous) to weary, bore the reader: languorem, molestiam legentium animis afferre
    
  • (ambiguous) to be so disposed: ita animo affectum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to excite emotion: motus excitare in animo (opp. sedare, exstinguere)
    
  • (ambiguous) grief has struck deep into his soul: dolor infixus animo haeret (Phil. 2. 26)
    
  • (ambiguous) to enjoy peace of mind: quieto, tranquillo, securo animo esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be very uneasy; to fret: (animo) angi (Brut. 27)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be brave, courageous: bono animo esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be brave by nature: animo forti esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to show a brisk and cheerful spirit: alacri et erecto animo esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to lose courage; to despair: animo cadere, deficere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be cast down, discouraged, in despair: animo esse humili, demisso (more strongly animo esse fracto, perculso et abiecto) (Att. 3. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) to possess presence of mind: praesenti animo uti (vid. sect. VI. 8, note uti...)
    
  • (ambiguous) to endure a thing with (the greatest) sang-froid: aequo (aequissimo) animo ferre aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to be resigned to a thing: (animo) paratum esse ad aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to lose one's composure; to be disconcerted: perturbari (animo)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be quite unconcerned: animo adesse (Sull. 11. 33)
    
  • (ambiguous) to conceive a hope: spem concipere animo
    
  • (ambiguous) to be waiting in suspense for..: suspenso animo exspectare aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to stifle, repress all humane sentiments in one's mind: omnem humanitatem ex animo exstirpare (Amic. 13. 48)
    
  • (ambiguous) to love deeply: aliquem ex animo or ex animi sententia amare (Q. Fr. 1. 1. 5)
    
  • (ambiguous) to banish love from one's mind: amorem ex animo eicere
    
  • (ambiguous) to banish all feeling of prejudice from the mind: suspicionem ex animo delere
    
  • (ambiguous) he is in a suspicious mood: suspicio insidet in animo ejus
    
  • (ambiguous) my mind forebodes misfortune: animo praesagio malum
    
  • (ambiguous) something is contrary to my moral sense, goes against my principles: aliquid abhorret a meis moribus (opp. insitum [atque innatum] est animo or in animo alicuius)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be inconsistent, changeable: animo mobili esse (Fam. 5. 2. 10)
    
  • (ambiguous) to banish devout sentiment from the minds of others: religionem ex animis extrahere (N. D. 1. 43. 121)
    
  • (ambiguous) belief in God is part of every one's nature: omnibus innatum est et in animo quasi insculptum esse deum
    
  • (ambiguous) Nature has implanted in all men the idea of a God: natura in omnium animis notionem dei impressit (N. D. 1. 16. 43)
    
  • (ambiguous) to devote oneself body and soul to the good of the state: totum et animo et corpore in salutem rei publicae se conferre
    
  • (ambiguous) to consider oneself already victor: victoriam praecipere (animo) (Liv. 10. 26)
    
• animus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Portuguese

Noun

animus m (uncountable)

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

Related terms

• anima