animula

Learned borrowing from Latin animula, diminutive of anima (“soul”).

• IPA^(key): /aˈni.mu.la/
• Rhymes: -imula
• Hyphenation: a‧nì‧mu‧la

animula f (plural animule)

1. (literary) Diminutive of anima: a small or little soul
2. (literary, figurative) a sensitive person
3. (archaeology) a depiction of a deceased's soul

• anima

• animula in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• manuali

anima (“soul”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈni.mu.la/, [äˈnɪmʊɫ̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈni.mu.la/, [äˈniːmulä]

animula f (genitive animulae); first declension

1. a small soul, spirit, life
   • 76 CE – 108 CE, Hadrian, Carmina 3:

     Animula vagula blandula,
     hospes comesque corporis,
     quae nunc abībis in loca
     pallidula, rigida, nūdula,
     nec ut solēs dabis iocōs...

     • Translation by Wikisource

       Little soul, wandering, pleasing,
       guest and companion of the body,
       which now go away in places
       pale, stiff, bare,
       and will not jest as you do...

   • 1611, Johannes Kepler, Strena seu de nive sexangula 11:

     Has igitur rationes materialem necessitatem respicientes ita puto sufficere, ut hoc loco non existimem philosophandum de perfectione et pulrhritudine vel nobilitate figurae rhombicae: neque satagendum, ut essentia animulae quae est in ape, ex contemplatione figurae, quam fabricatur, eliciatur.

     These therefore are the reasons considering the material necessity, so I think it sufficient that at this point I do not consider philosophizing about the perfection, beauty, or nobility of the rhombic shape, nor fussing that the essence of the small soul which is in the bee is elicited from a meditation on the shape that is built.

First-declension noun.

• anima

• “animula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “animula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• animula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette