List of animal epithets

The list of animal - epithets (the epithets to the Latin word animal "animal") covers all expressions from the Latin noun animal ( "animal") and a specifying adjective composed.

Latin expression translation Explanation Author / use animal amans loving animal also: homo amans Günther Anders 1949, love yesterday animal laborans working animal also: homo laborans Hannah Arendt animal morale moral animal Robert Wright 1994 animal rational sensible animal Carl von Linné 1760, Immanuel Kant 1798 animal rational sensible animal Translation of the Greek zoon logon echon Seneca , epist. 41, 8; Immanuel Kant 1798 animal sociale social animal Latin translation of zoon politikon ; also: homo politicus Aristotle ; Seneca, clem. 1, 3, 2 animal symbolicum symbolic animal Man as a being expressing himself symbolically; also: homo symbolicus Ernst Cassirer 1944

See also

• List of gay epithets
• Zoon politikon