inanimate

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈænɪmət/
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• /ɪnˈænɪmeɪt/
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• CMU ARPABET: IH2 N AE1 N AH0 M AH0 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Inherited from Middle English inanimat(e), from Late Latin inanimātus, from Latin in- + animātus (“animated”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + animate. The noun was derived by substantivization from the adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).

Borrowed from Latin inanimātus, the perfect passive participle of inanimō (“to animate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in, into”) + animō (“to animate”); by surface analysis, in- + animate.

69 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: جَامِد (jāmid) — not mobile
• Bulgarian: неподви́жен (nepodvížen) — not mobile
• Catalan: inanimat — not mobile
• Finnish: liikkumaton — not mobile
• Finnish: liikkumiskyvytön — not mobile
• Galician: inanimado — not mobile
• German: bewegungslos — not mobile
• German: unbewegbar — not mobile
• Ancient Greek: ἄψυχος (ápsukhos) — not mobile
• Hungarian: élettelen — not mobile
• Manx: neuannymagh — not mobile
• Old English: unstyriende — not mobile
• Russian: неподви́жный (nepodvížnyj) — not mobile
• Spanish: inanimado — not mobile
• Turkish: hareket edemeyen — not mobile
• Armenian: անշունչ (anšunčʻ) — not alive
• Belarusian: нежывы́ (nježyvý) — not alive
• Belarusian: бязду́шны (bjazdúšny) — not alive
• Bulgarian: безду́шен (bezdúšen) — not alive
• Bulgarian: безжи́знен (bezžíznen) — not alive
• Catalan: inanimat — not alive
• Chinese Mandarin: 無生命 /无生命 (wúshēngmìng) — not alive
• Dutch: levenloos — not alive
• Esperanto: senviva — not alive
• Finnish: eloton — not alive
• Galician: inanimado — not alive
• German: leblos — not alive
• Greek: άψυχος (ápsychos) — not alive
• Ancient Greek: ἄψυχος (ápsukhos) — not alive
• Hindi: निर्जीव (nirjīv) — not alive
• Hungarian: élettelen — not alive
• Latin: inanimus — not alive
• Old English: līflēas — not alive
• Pashto: بې سا (be sâ) — not alive
• Romanian: inanimat — not alive
• Romanian: neanimat — not alive
• Russian: неживо́й (neživój) — not alive
• Russian: безду́шный (bezdúšnyj) — not alive
• Russian: безжи́зненный (bezžíznennyj) — not alive
• Spanish: inanimado — not alive
• Turkish: cansız — not alive
• Turkish: ölü — not alive
• Ukrainian: неживи́й (nežyvýj) — not alive
• Ukrainian: безду́шний (bezdúšnyj) — not alive
• Armenian: անշունչ (anšunčʻ) — in grammar
• Belarusian: неадушаўлёны (njeadušawljóny) — in grammar
• Belarusian: нежывы́ (nježyvý) — in grammar
• Bulgarian: неодушеве́н (neoduševén) — in grammar
• Chinese Mandarin: 無生的 /无生的 (wúshēng de) — in grammar
• Czech: neživotný — in grammar
• Dutch: onbezield — in grammar
• Finnish: eloton — in grammar
• French: inanimé — in grammar
• Galician: inanimado — in grammar
• German: unbelebt — in grammar
• Hungarian: élettelen — in grammar
• Japanese: 無生の (musei-no) — in grammar
• Kashmiri: نےٚ زوٗوؠ (ne zūv') — in grammar
• Mongolian: амьгүй (amʹgüj) — in grammar
• Mongolian: ᠠᠮᠢ ᠦᠭᠡᠶ (ami ügey) — in grammar
• Pashto: بې سا (be sâ) — in grammar
• Polish: nieżywotny — in grammar
• Russian: неодушевлённый (neoduševljónnyj) — in grammar
• Russian: неживо́й (neživój) — in grammar
• Swedish: obesjälad — in grammar
• Swedish: livlös — in grammar
• Turkish: cansız — in grammar
• Ukrainian: неживи́й (nežyvýj) — in grammar
• Ukrainian: неісто́та (neistóta) — in grammar