exanimis

Alternative forms

• exanimus

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ekˈsa.ni.mis/, [ɛkˈs̠änɪmɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈsa.ni.mis/, [eɡˈzäːnimis]

Adjective

exanimis (neuter exanime); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. dead, lifeless

   Synonyms: mortuus, dēfūnctus

   Antonym: vīvus

2. breathless, as if near death, resulting from fear or terror; fainting
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.672:

     Audiit exanimis trepidōque exterrita cursū

     [Anna] hears, and – breathless, terrified, [then] with wild haste [...].
     (Fearing the worst, Anna is briefly without a breath – i.e., she figuratively becomes nearly lifeless herself, and maybe almost faints – before she rushes to find her sister Dido near death.)

3. terrified, dismayed

References

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