animula

anima (“soul”) +‎ -ula (“small”)

animula f (genitive animulae); first declension

1. a small soul, spirit, life
   • 1611, Johannes Kepler, Strena seu de nive sexangula 11:

     Has igitur rationes materialem necessitatem respicientes ita puto sufficere, ut hoc loco non existimem philosophandum de perfectione et pulrhritudine vel nobilitate figurae rhombicae: neque satagendum, ut essentia animulae quae est in ape, ex contemplatione figurae, quam fabricatur, eliciatur.

     These therefore are the reasons considering the material necessity, so I think it sufficient that at this point I do not consider philosophizing about the perfection, beauty, or nobility of the rhombic shape, nor fussing that the essence of the small soul which is in the bee is elicited from a meditation on the shape that is built.

2. vocative singular of animula

animulā f

1. ablative singular of animula

First declension.

• anima

• animula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• animula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• animula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette