unanimus

Latin

Etymology

From ūni- +‎ animus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /uːˈna.ni.mus/, [uːˈnänɪmʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /uˈna.ni.mus/, [uˈnäːnimus]

Adjective

ūnanimus (feminine ūnanima, neuter ūnanimum, adverb ūnanimiter); first/second-declension adjective

1. 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”.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ūnanimus	ūnanima	ūnanimum		ūnanimī	ūnanimae	ūnanima
Genitive	ūnanimī	ūnanimae	ūnanimī		ūnanimōrum	ūnanimārum	ūnanimōrum
Dative	ūnanimō		ūnanimō		ūnanimīs
Accusative	ūnanimum	ūnanimam	ūnanimum		ūnanimōs	ūnanimās	ūnanima
Ablative	ūnanimō	ūnanimā	ūnanimō		ūnanimīs
Vocative	ūnanime	ūnanima	ūnanimum		ūnanimī	ūnanimae	ūnanima

Synonyms

• unanimis

Derived terms

• unanimitas

Related terms

• unanimiter (unanimously)

Descendants

• → English: unanimous
• → French: unanime (learned)

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.