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inanimus

inanimus · adj

lifeless

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Where it lives

De Officiis 5 · 1.48/10k
Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.94/10k
de Natura Deorum 3 · 0.84/10k
De Divinatione 2 · 0.73/10k
Lucullus 1 · 0.56/10k
De Republica 1 · 0.46/10k
Institutio Oratoria 7 · 0.41/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 1 · 0.2/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĭnănĭmus — Lewis & Short

ĭnănĭmus, a, um, adj.2. in-animus,

I lifeless, inanimate (class.; cf. Madv. ad Cic. Fin. p. 534): cum inter inanimum et animal hoc maxime intersit, quod inanimum nihil agit, animal agit aliquid, Cic. Ac. 2, 12, 37; cf.: inanimum est omne, quod pulsu agitatur externo; quod autem est animal, id motu cietur interiore et suo, id. Tusc. 1, 23, 54: cujusque generis vel inanimi vel animantis origo, id. ib. 5, 24, 69; id. Rep. 6, 26: res (opp. quodque animal), id. Div. 2, 47, 98: natura, id. N. D. 2, 30, 76: muta atque inanima, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 67, § 171; so with muta, id. N. D. 1, 14, 36; Tac. A. 4, 69 fin.: omnes res, animantes et inanimae, Auct. Her. 4, 48, 61; 4, 53, 66; cf.: ex mutis animalibus aut inanimis, Quint. 5, 3, 23: satiati caede animantium, quae inanima erant, etc., Liv. 41, 18, 4.

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