animulusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [aˈnɪ.mʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [aˈniː.mu.lus]
• ハイフネーション: a‧ni‧mu‧lus

名詞

animulus m (genitive animulī); second declension

1. (endearing) diminutive of animus (“life”); (in the vocative case) used as an affectionate term of address; darling (person who is very dear to one); sweetheart (a person very much liked or loved by someone)

   Synonyms: corculum n, dēliciae f pl, melculum n (literally “little honey”), [meum] mel n (literally “[my] honey”), ocellus m

   mī animule! / animule mī! ― my heart / darling!

   Tē amō, mī animule! ― I love you, my heart!

   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 2.3.10:

     Animule mī, mihĭ mīra videntur,

     • 1912 translation by Henry Thomas Riley

       My dear life, it seems wonderful to me

   • c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina 1.1.46:

     Quom mihĭ illa dīcet: mī animule, mī Olympiō,

     • 1912 translation by Henry Thomas Riley

       while she is saying to me, “My soul, my own Olympio, […]!”

語形変化

Second-declension noun.

Further reading

• “ănĭmŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• animulus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 440
• “animulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 129.
• Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “animulus”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎, 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Latino-Sinicum [mī animule translated as 我的心肝 (wǒ de xīngān, “my heart”)]