exanimatus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of exanimō (“weaken, exhaust”).

Participle

exanimātus (feminine exanimāta, neuter exanimātum); first/second-declension participle

1. weakened, exhausted
2. killed
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico V.44:

     Pullo pilum in hostes immittit atque unum ex multitudine procurrentem traicit; quo percusso et exanimato hunc scutis protegunt, in hostem tela universi coniciunt neque dant regrediendi facultatem.

     Pullo throws his javelin at the enemy, and pierces one of the multitude who was running up, and while the latter was wounded and slain, the enemy cover him with their shields, and all throw their weapons at the other and afford him no opportunity of retreating.

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.25:

     scorpione ab latere dextro traiectus exanimatusque concidit

     He was pierced and killed on the right side by a scorpion and fell

3. unconscious

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	exanimātus	exanimāta	exanimātum		exanimātī	exanimātae	exanimāta
Genitive	exanimātī	exanimātae	exanimātī		exanimātōrum	exanimātārum	exanimātōrum
Dative	exanimātō		exanimātō		exanimātīs
Accusative	exanimātum	exanimātam	exanimātum		exanimātōs	exanimātās	exanimāta
Ablative	exanimātō	exanimātā	exanimātō		exanimātīs
Vocative	exanimāte	exanimāta	exanimātum		exanimātī	exanimātae	exanimāta

References

• “exanimatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers