"animalcule" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ænɪˈmælkjuːl/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌænəˈmælˌkjul/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-animalcule.wav [Southern-England] Forms: animalcules [plural]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin animalculum (“lowly or small animal”) + English -cule (diminutive suffix). Animalculum is derived from Latin animal (“animal; living creature”) + -culum (diminutive suffix); and animal from animāle, the nominative neuter singular of animālis (“animate, living; relating to living creatures”), from anima (“breath; life; soul, spirit”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship). The English word is analysable as animal + -cule. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₂enh₁-|*-lós}}, {{lbor|en|LL.|animalculum|t=lowly or small animal}} Learned borrowing from Late Latin animalculum (“lowly or small animal”), {{glossary|diminutive}} diminutive, {{glossary|suffix}} suffix, {{m|en|-cule|pos=diminutive suffix}} -cule (diminutive suffix), {{m|LL.||Animalculum}} Animalculum, {{der|en|la|animal|t=animal; living creature}} Latin animal (“animal; living creature”), {{m|la|-culum|pos=diminutive suffix}} -culum (diminutive suffix), {{m|la||animal}} animal, {{m|la|animāle}} animāle, {{glossary|nominative}} nominative, {{glossary|neuter}} neuter, {{glossary|singular}} singular, {{m|la|animālis|t=animate, living; relating to living creatures}} animālis (“animate, living; relating to living creatures”), {{m|la|anima|t=breath; life; soul, spirit}} anima (“breath; life; soul, spirit”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*h₂enh₁-|t=to breathe}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”), {{glossary|adjective}} adjective, {{m|la|-ālis|pos=suffix forming adjectives of relationship}} -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship), {{suffix|en|animal|cule}} animal + -cule Head templates: {{en-noun}} animalcule (plural animalcules)
  1. (physiology, historical) A sperm cell or spermatozoon; also, the embryo that was formerly thought to be contained inside a spermatozoon in a fully developed state. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Physiology Translations (embryo that was formerly thought to be contained inside a spermatozoon in a fully developed state): alkueläin [rare] (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-animalcule-en-noun-5lgUYmay Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -cule Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 28 1 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 76 22 1 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -cule: 74 21 5 Topics: medicine, physiology, sciences Disambiguation of 'embryo that was formerly thought to be contained inside a spermatozoon in a fully developed state': 96 4 0
  2. (zoology, archaic) A microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers. Tags: archaic Categories (topical): Zoology Categories (lifeform): Lifeforms Translations (microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers): حييوينات (Arabic), animàlcul [masculine] (Catalan), alkueläin (Finnish), animalcule [masculine] (French), जंतुक (jantuk) (Hindi), animaleto (Ido), animalculum [neuter] (Latin), animálculo [masculine] (Portuguese), animalcul [masculine] (Romanian), animálculo [masculine] (Spanish), nimil (Volapük)
    Sense id: en-animalcule-en-noun-dB0kFenZ Disambiguation of Lifeforms: 38 50 12 Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology Disambiguation of 'microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers': 4 90 6
  3. (obsolete) A small animal. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-animalcule-en-noun-3wPbsXHR
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: animalcula [archaic], animalculum Hyponyms: bell animalcule (alt: peritrich), eye animalcule, globe animalcule, proteus animalcule (english: amoeba), slipper animalcule (alt: paramecium), sun animalcule (alt: heliozoa), trumpet animalcule (alt: stentor), wheel animalcule (alt: rotifer) Derived forms: animalcular, animalculine [obsolete, rare], animalculism [historical], animalculist [historical], animalculistic, animalculous [archaic], caminalcule Related terms: animalcula, animalculum

Noun [French]

Forms: animalcules [plural]
Head templates: {{fr-noun|m}} animalcule m (plural animalcules)
  1. animalcule Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-animalcule-fr-noun-WTAYzLBc Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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      "expansion": "Animalculum",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "animal",
        "t": "animal; living creature"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin animal (“animal; living creature”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-culum",
        "pos": "diminutive suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "-culum (diminutive suffix)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "",
        "3": "animal"
      },
      "expansion": "animal",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "animāle"
      },
      "expansion": "animāle",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nominative"
      },
      "expansion": "nominative",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "neuter"
      },
      "expansion": "neuter",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "singular"
      },
      "expansion": "singular",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "animālis",
        "t": "animate, living; relating to living creatures"
      },
      "expansion": "animālis (“animate, living; relating to living creatures”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "anima",
        "t": "breath; life; soul, spirit"
      },
      "expansion": "anima (“breath; life; soul, spirit”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂enh₁-",
        "t": "to breathe"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "adjective",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-ālis",
        "pos": "suffix forming adjectives of relationship"
      },
      "expansion": "-ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "animal",
        "3": "cule"
      },
      "expansion": "animal + -cule",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Learned borrowing from Late Latin animalculum (“lowly or small animal”) + English -cule (diminutive suffix). Animalculum is derived from Latin animal (“animal; living creature”) + -culum (diminutive suffix); and animal from animāle, the nominative neuter singular of animālis (“animate, living; relating to living creatures”), from anima (“breath; life; soul, spirit”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship). The English word is analysable as animal + -cule.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "animalcules",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "animalcule (plural animalcules)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ani‧mal‧cule"
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "alt": "peritrich",
      "word": "bell animalcule"
    },
    {
      "word": "eye animalcule"
    },
    {
      "word": "globe animalcule"
    },
    {
      "english": "amoeba",
      "word": "proteus animalcule"
    },
    {
      "alt": "paramecium",
      "word": "slipper animalcule"
    },
    {
      "alt": "heliozoa",
      "word": "sun animalcule"
    },
    {
      "alt": "stentor",
      "word": "trumpet animalcule"
    },
    {
      "alt": "rotifer",
      "word": "wheel animalcule"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "animalcula"
    },
    {
      "word": "animalculum"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Physiology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2001, David M. Friedman, “The Gear Shift”, in A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis, New York, N.Y.: The Free Press, page 76",
          "text": "[Antonie van] Leeuwenhoek's most mysterious finding was yet to come, however. Inside the animalcules in the thickest part of the semen he saw / all manner of great and small vessels, so various and so numerous that I do not doubt that they be nerves, arteries and veins. …",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A sperm cell or spermatozoon; also, the embryo that was formerly thought to be contained inside a spermatozoon in a fully developed state."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "physiology",
          "physiology"
        ],
        [
          "sperm cell",
          "sperm cell"
        ],
        [
          "spermatozoon",
          "spermatozoon"
        ],
        [
          "embryo",
          "embryo"
        ],
        [
          "contain",
          "contain"
        ],
        [
          "fully",
          "fully"
        ],
        [
          "developed",
          "developed#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(physiology, historical) A sperm cell or spermatozoon; also, the embryo that was formerly thought to be contained inside a spermatozoon in a fully developed state."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "physiology",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Zoology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, John Jeremiah Sullivan, “La·hwi·ne·ski: Career of an Eccentric Naturalist”, in Pulphead, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, pages 212–213",
          "text": "If we are part of nature, then we are synonymous with it at the metaphysical level, every bit as much as the first all-but-inorganic animalcules that ever formed a chain of themselves in the blow hole of a primordial sea vent.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "microscopic",
          "microscopic"
        ],
        [
          "aquatic",
          "aquatic#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "animal",
          "animal#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "protozoa",
          "protozoan"
        ],
        [
          "rotifer",
          "rotifer"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(zoology, archaic) A microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A small animal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "small",
          "small#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A small animal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ænɪˈmælkjuːl/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌænəˈmælˌkjul/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "animalcula"
    },
    {
      "word": "animalculum"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "embryo that was formerly thought to be contained inside a spermatozoon in a fully developed state",
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "alkueläin"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers",
      "word": "حييوينات"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "animàlcul"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers",
      "word": "alkueläin"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "animalcule"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "jantuk",
      "sense": "microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers",
      "word": "जंतुक"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers",
      "word": "animaleto"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "animalculum"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "animálculo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "animalcul"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "animálculo"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "microscopic aquatic animal, including protozoa and rotifers",
      "word": "nimil"
    }
  ],
  "word": "animalcule"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "animalcules",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "animalcule m (plural animalcules)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French countable nouns",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French lemmas",
        "French masculine nouns",
        "French nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "animalcule"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "animalcule",
          "animalcule#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "animalcule"
}

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