English
animality
Animality may come from French animalité.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentanimalitéuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2015animality
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presentanimalitéuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2015animality
Earliest quotation: 2015, J. M. Bernstein, Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury: “For good reason military leaders attempt to instill in…”
Equivalent to animal + -ity
Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- ‘to breathe’
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Latin animālis
Latin animal
Old French animal
Middle English animal ‘an animal’
English animal
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- ‘to breathe’
and, asthma, inhale, exhalation, prana, onde, 21 more
through Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos ‘breath’
through Proto-Italic *anamos ‘breath’
through Latin animus ‘life, life force, soul, vitality’
unanimous, animosity, animus, 14 more
through Latin anima ‘life, ghost’
Today it means
noun The nature of an animal.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French animalité / animality