The English word "spirit" comes from the Latin spiritus, meaning breath.
Etymology
The English word "
spirit" comes from the
Latin spiritus, meaning "
breath" (compare
spiritus asper), but also "soul, courage, vigor", ultimately from a
PIE root
*(s)peis- ("to blow"). In the
Vulgate, the Latin word translates Greek (πνευμα),
pneuma (Hebrew (רוח)
ruah), as opposed to
anima, translating
psykhē. The word was loaned into
Middle English via
Old French espirit in the 13th century.
The distinction between soul and spirit became current in Judeo-Christian terminology (e.g. Greek. psykhe vs. pneuma, Latin anima vs. spiritus, Hebrew ruach vs. neshama or nephesh; in Hebrew neshama from the root NSHM or breath.)
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