Where does “animato” come from?
animato (English) comes from Italian animato, from Italian animare, from Latin animō, from Latin anima, from Latin animus, from Proto-Italic anamos, from Proto-Indo-European h₂enh₁mos, from Proto-Indo-European h₂enh₁- — to breathe.
animato (English): A passage to be played in a lively, animated manner
Definitions
- A passage to be played in a lively, animated manner
Ancestry of “animato”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | animato | animate; animated; lively |
| 2 | Italian | animare | to animate; to enliven; to encourage |
| 3 | Latin | animō | to fill with breath or air |
| 4 | Latin | anima | soul, spirit, life; air, breeze; breath |
| 5 | Latin | animus | That life-giving aspect which animates: life... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | anamos | breath; spirit, soul, life force |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂enh₁mos | breath |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₂enh₁- | to breathe |