exanimatus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of exanimō (“weaken, exhaust”).
Participle
exanimātus (feminine exanimāta, neuter exanimātum); first/second-declension participle
- weakened, exhausted, breathless or weak with emotion
- 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 234–235:
- MȲSIS: Sed quidnam Pamphilum exanimātum videō? Vereor quid siet. / Opperiar, ut sciam num quidnam haec turba trīstitiae afferat.
- MYSIS: But why do I see Pamphilus [looking so] exhausted? I fear what it might be. I’ll wait, to find out whether his unhappiness is going to cause any trouble.
- MȲSIS: Sed quidnam Pamphilum exanimātum videō? Vereor quid siet. / Opperiar, ut sciam num quidnam haec turba trīstitiae afferat.
- killed
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico V.44:
- Pullo pilum in hostes immittit atque unum ex multitudine procurrentem traicit; quo percusso et exanimato hunc scutis protegunt, in hostem tela universi coniciunt neque dant regrediendi facultatem.
- Pullo throws his javelin at the enemy, and pierces one of the multitude who was running up, and while the latter was wounded and slain, the enemy cover him with their shields, and all throw their weapons at the other and afford him no opportunity of retreating.
- Pullo pilum in hostes immittit atque unum ex multitudine procurrentem traicit; quo percusso et exanimato hunc scutis protegunt, in hostem tela universi coniciunt neque dant regrediendi facultatem.
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.25:
- scorpione ab latere dextro traiectus exanimatusque concidit
- He was pierced and killed on the right side by a scorpion and fell
- scorpione ab latere dextro traiectus exanimatusque concidit
- unconscious
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | exanimātus | exanimāta | exanimātum | exanimātī | exanimātae | exanimāta | |
| genitive | exanimātī | exanimātae | exanimātī | exanimātōrum | exanimātārum | exanimātōrum | |
| dative | exanimātō | exanimātae | exanimātō | exanimātīs | |||
| accusative | exanimātum | exanimātam | exanimātum | exanimātōs | exanimātās | exanimāta | |
| ablative | exanimātō | exanimātā | exanimātō | exanimātīs | |||
| vocative | exanimāte | exanimāta | exanimātum | exanimātī | exanimātae | exanimāta | |
References
- “exanimatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers