animalculan.

Brit.

/ˌanᵻˈmalkjᵿlə/, U.S.

/ˌænəˈmæ(l)kjələ/

Inflections: Plural animalculae, animalculas.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin animalcula, animalculum.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin animalcula, plural of animalculum animalcule n., reinterpreted (apparently in English) as showing a Latin feminine singular (with plural animalculae).The use in quot. 1716 appears to be an isolated error in a text which otherwise uses the plural animalcula.

Now rare.

= animalcule n. (in various senses).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > [noun] > small animal

oryxa1382

small deer14..

mite1594

animalcule1599

insect1601

animalillio1647

minim of nature1667

animalcula1716

beastie1765

beastling1789

thumb1854

the world > animals > animal body > [noun] > small animal > visible only through microscope

animalcule1677

animalcula1716

the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > sperm > spermatozoon

animalcule1686

animalcula1716

zoosperm1824

spermatozoon1836

spermatozoid1861

sperm1904

nemasperm1922

1716 Great Britain's Rules of Health vii. The Corruption of the Animalculæ.

1729 W. Maple Method Tanning without Bark 22 Considering the extream nice, and distinguishing Taste of those Animaculas, may be well allowed as a Proof, that their Juices are similar.

1757 C. N. Jenty Course Anatomico-physiol. Lect. II. xvii. 335 The other is, that the Mole is a Vesicula, or Ovum, which was fecundated by a seminal Animalcula, but has adhered to the Uterus.

1795 Gentleman's Mag. July 539 The animalculæ that in spring-tide often almost obscure the sun itself.

1825 Lancet 8 Oct. 91/1 Leuwenhoek..demonstrated the animalculæ in seminal fluid.

1859 Harper's Mag. May 779/2 Whether composed of countless myriads of invisible animalculae, of minute fungi.

1872 F. Kilvert Diary 6 Mar. (1944) 165 He asked me if I considered that animalculae had the power of suffering.

1917 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 8 Aug. 7/2 No more the public drinking glass, with its collection of animalculae and germ protisms, turned loose upon an unsuspecting and ptomained public.

1992 P. O'Brian Truelove viii. 201 They rowed laboriously out, with rods, hand-nets, sieves for animalculae.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	animalcula
释义	animalculan. Brit. /ˌanᵻˈmalkjᵿlə/, U.S. /ˌænəˈmæ(l)kjələ/ Inflections: Plural animalculae, animalculas. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin animalcula, animalculum. Etymology: < post-classical Latin animalcula, plural of animalculum animalcule n., reinterpreted (apparently in English) as showing a Latin feminine singular (with plural animalculae).The use in quot. 1716 appears to be an isolated error in a text which otherwise uses the plural animalcula. Now rare. = animalcule n. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > [noun] > small animal oryxa1382 small deer14.. mite1594 animalcule1599 insect1601 animalillio1647 minim of nature1667 animalcula1716 beastie1765 beastling1789 thumb1854 the world > animals > animal body > [noun] > small animal > visible only through microscope animalcule1677 animalcula1716 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > sperm > spermatozoon animalcule1686 animalcula1716 zoosperm1824 spermatozoon1836 spermatozoid1861 sperm1904 nemasperm1922 1716 Great Britain's Rules of Health vii. The Corruption of the Animalculæ. 1729 W. Maple Method Tanning without Bark 22 Considering the extream nice, and distinguishing Taste of those Animaculas, may be well allowed as a Proof, that their Juices are similar. 1757 C. N. Jenty Course Anatomico-physiol. Lect. II. xvii. 335 The other is, that the Mole is a Vesicula, or Ovum, which was fecundated by a seminal Animalcula, but has adhered to the Uterus. 1795 Gentleman's Mag. July 539 The animalculæ that in spring-tide often almost obscure the sun itself. 1825 Lancet 8 Oct. 91/1 Leuwenhoek..demonstrated the animalculæ in seminal fluid. 1859 Harper's Mag. May 779/2 Whether composed of countless myriads of invisible animalculae, of minute fungi. 1872 F. Kilvert Diary 6 Mar. (1944) 165 He asked me if I considered that animalculae had the power of suffering. 1917 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 8 Aug. 7/2 No more the public drinking glass, with its collection of animalculae and germ protisms, turned loose upon an unsuspecting and ptomained public. 1992 P. O'Brian Truelove viii. 201 They rowed laboriously out, with rods, hand-nets, sieves for animalculae. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1716
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