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 being—the soul or life force. The phrase anima mundi, meaning “the world soul,” is a well-known example in which the form anima appears in the nominative. When the noun takes different grammatical roles, such as the object, animam would be used accordingly.

In modern usage, animam mainly appears within scholarly discussions of Latin grammar or in translations of Latin passages. It is not a term that functions as an independent English word today, but rather a grammatical form that readers encounter when studying Latin texts.

As a linguistic form, animam illustrates how Latin nouns inflect for case and number, and it serves as a reminder that many English renderings of classical terms depend on understanding their original syntactic roles in Latin sentences.