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[[Latin]], from ''animale'', neuter of ''animalis'' animate, from ''anima'' [[soul]]
[[Latin]], from ''animale'', neuter of ''animalis'' animate, from ''anima'' [[soul]]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th_century]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th_century]
The word "animal" comes from the [[Latin]] word ''animalis'', meaning "having [[breath]]". In everyday [[colloquial]] usage, the word often refers to non-human members of kingdom ''Animalia''. Sometimes, only closer relatives of humans such as [[mammals]] and other vertebrates are meant in colloquial use. The [[biological]] [[definition]] of the word refers to all members of the kingdom ''Animalia'', encompassing [[creatures]] as diverse as sponges, jellyfish, insects and [[humans]].
The word "animal" comes from the [[Latin]] word ''animalis'', meaning "having [[breath]]". In everyday [[colloquial]] usage, the word often refers to non-human members of kingdom ''Animalia''. Sometimes, only closer relatives of [[humans]] such as [[mammals]] and other vertebrates are meant in colloquial use. The [[biological]] [[definition]] of the word refers to all members of the kingdom ''Animalia'', encompassing [[creatures]] as diverse as sponges, jellyfish, insects and [[humans]].
==Definitions==
==Definitions==
*1: any of a kingdom (''Animalia'') of living things including many-celled [[organisms]] and often many of the single-celled ones (as protozoans) that typically differ from [[plants]] in having [[cells]] without cellulose walls, in lacking chlorophyll and the capacity for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/photosynthesis], in requiring more complex [[food]] materials (as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/proteins]), in being organized to a greater degree of [[complexity]], and in having the capacity for [[spontaneous]] movement and rapid motor [[responses]] to [[stimulation]]
*1: any of a kingdom (''Animalia'') of living things including many-celled [[organisms]] and often many of the single-celled ones (as protozoans) that typically differ from [[plants]] in having [[cells]] without cellulose walls, in lacking chlorophyll and the capacity for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/photosynthesis], in requiring more complex [[food]] materials (as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/proteins]), in being organized to a greater degree of [[complexity]], and in having the capacity for [[spontaneous]] movement and rapid motor [[responses]] to [[stimulation]]
