animam
Animam is the accusative singular form of the Latin noun anima, which means soul, spirit, or breath. In Latin, anima is a feminine noun of the first declension; animam is used when the noun is the direct object of a sentence. Thus, animam translates as “the soul” or “the life” depending on context, and it appears in religious, philosophical, and poetic texts.
In classical and medieval Latin, the concept of anima refers broadly to the animating principle of a
In modern usage, animam mainly appears within scholarly discussions of Latin grammar or in translations of
As a linguistic form, animam illustrates how Latin nouns inflect for case and number, and it serves