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animacy

noun

Etymology

From animate + -cy.

  1. derived from animātus
  2. inherited from animate
  3. suffixed as animacy — “animate + cy”

Definitions

  1. The state of being alive.

    • These may differ radically in their linguistic animacy, as briefly discussed above, without this having any consequences for their biological animacy.

  2. In some languages, the characteristic of a noun, dependent on its living or sentient…

    In some languages, the characteristic of a noun, dependent on its living or sentient nature, which affects grammatical features (it can modify verbs used with the noun, affect the noun's declension, etc.).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for animacy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA