anima

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I have here translated the Italian 'anima' literally by the English word soul.

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  1. noun The inner self of an individual; the soul.
  2. noun In Jungian psychology:
  3. noun The unconscious or true inner self of an individual, as opposed to the persona, or outer aspect of the personality.
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  • They were your standard archetypal anima-female menace, luring men into the deep woods in order to sleep with them. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • I have here translated the Italian anima literally by the English word soul. —  The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
  • Rogerii Bachonis de anima, et ejus operibus.— Ejusdem liber de intellectu et intelligibili. —  The Diary of Dr. John Dee
  • De philosophia Salomonis.— Fulgentius episcopus ad Calcidium Grammaticum.— Experimenta quædam alchimica.— Cassiodorus de anima, una cum aliis theologicis. —  The Diary of Dr. John Dee
  • Where vitalism explicitly invokes an immaterial 'vital' principle or force, it sometimes refers to that element as the 'vital spark', 'vital flame', 'energy' or 'soul', or in Latin, 'anima'. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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  1. Latin; see anə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, a current of air, wind, air, breath, the vital principle, life, soul: sometimes equivalent to animus, mind (see animus, and cf. Greek ἂνεμος, wind); both from root seen in Sanskrit √an, breathe, representing in Teutonic by Gothic (Moesogothic) usanan, breathe out, expire; cf. Icelandic anda = Swedish andas = Danish aande, breathe, Icelandic önd, breath, life, soul, = Swedish anda, ande = Danish aande, breath (later Scots aund, aind, aynd, breath, breathe); also Icelandic andi, breath, spirit, a spirit, = Danish aand, spirit, soul, a spirit, ghost, = Old High German anto = Old Saxon ando = Anglo-Saxon anda, zeal, indignation, anger, envy: for the change of sense, cf. animus and animosity.
 

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