The Latin roots of this derisive adjective are pusillus, meaning "very small" (and related to pusus, meaning "boy") and animus, which means "spirit" and is the ...

16 февр. 2021 г. · "timid, lacking strength and firmness of mind," from Late Latin pusillanimis "having little courage" (used in Church Latin to translate Greek oligopsykhos " ...

Derived from Latin pusillanimis (“faint-hearted, timid”) +‎ -ous. Pronunciation. edit.

pusillanimous is of multiple origins. Either (i) a borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an ...

Its Latin origin — pusillus and animus — tells us that pusillanimous means "very small spirit." If you are pusillanimous, pronounced "pew-sill-AN-ih-mus," you ...

3 дня назад · Word History and Origins. Origin of pusillanimous. 1580–90; < Late Latin pusillanimis petty-spirited, equivalent to Latin pusill ( us ) very ...

4 июл. 2014 г. · That word comes from French pusillanime / post-classical Latin pusillanimis < pusillus "small, insignificant" + anima "breath, spirit".

5 дней назад · Word origin. C16: from Late Latin pusillanimis from Latin pusillus weak +animus courage. COBUILD frequency band. pusillanimous in American ...

18 мар. 2014 г. · It is a shortened form of the word “pusillanimous“, which comes from Latin words meaning “tiny spirit” and is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “ ...

Word Originlate Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin pusillanimis (translating Greek olugopsukhos), from pusillus 'very small' + animus 'mind', + -ous.