unanimus
Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [uːˈna.nɪ.mʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [uˈnaː.ni.mus]
Adjective
ūnanimus (feminine ūnanima, neuter ūnanimum, adverb ūnanimiter); first/second-declension adjective
- concordant, harmonious, unanimous (that acts as one), in concert, of one mind, like-minded, one-souled, sympathizing
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.8-9:
- cum sīc ūnanimam adloquitur male sāna sorōrem:
“Anna soror, quae mē suspēnsam īnsomnia terrent!”- When, badly distraught, [Dido] speaks in this way with her like-minded sister: “Anna, [dear] sister, [I am] restless — what dreams frighten me!”
(Dido’s closest confidant, her sister Anna, first appears here in the epic. Translations vary – Mackail, 1885: “opens her confidence to her sister”; Knight, 1956: “the sister whose heart was one with hers”; Fagles, 2006: “confides now to the sister of her soul”; Ahl, 2007: “what was her soul’s other self, in a manner, her sister”; Ruden, 2021: “her loving sister”.)
- When, badly distraught, [Dido] speaks in this way with her like-minded sister: “Anna, [dear] sister, [I am] restless — what dreams frighten me!”
- cum sīc ūnanimam adloquitur male sāna sorōrem:
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
nominative | ūnanimus | ūnanima | ūnanimum | ūnanimī | ūnanimae | ūnanima | |
genitive | ūnanimī | ūnanimae | ūnanimī | ūnanimōrum | ūnanimārum | ūnanimōrum | |
dative | ūnanimō | ūnanimae | ūnanimō | ūnanimīs | |||
accusative | ūnanimum | ūnanimam | ūnanimum | ūnanimōs | ūnanimās | ūnanima | |
ablative | ūnanimō | ūnanimā | ūnanimō | ūnanimīs | |||
vocative | ūnanime | ūnanima | ūnanimum | ūnanimī | ūnanimae | ūnanima |
Synonyms
Derived terms
- unanimitas
Related terms
- unanimiter (unanimously)
Descendants
References
- “unanimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “unanimus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- unanimus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.