animulus

== Latin == === Etymology === From animus + -ulus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈnɪ.mʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈniː.mu.lus] Hyphenation: a‧ni‧mu‧lus === Noun === animulus m (genitive animulī); second declension (endearing) diminutive of animus (“life”); (in the vocative case) used as an affectionate term of address; darling (person who is very dear to one); sweetheart (a person very much liked or loved by someone) Synonyms: corculum n, dēliciae f pl, melculum n (literally “little honey”), [meum] mel n (literally “[my] honey”), ocellus m mī animule! / animule mī! ― my heart / darling! Tē amō, mī animule! ― I love you, my heart! ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === Further reading === “ănĭmŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press animulus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 440 “animulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 129, column 1. Harm Pinkster, editor (2018), “animulus”, in Woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands‎[1], 7th revised edition, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC Latino-Sinicum [mī animule translated as 我的心肝 (wǒ de xīngān, “my heart”)]