Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Inanimate has 6 different meanings across 1 category:
Something that is not alive.
To animate.
not endowed with life
"the inorganic world is inanimate"
"inanimate objects"
appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse
"an inanimate body"
"pulseless and dead"
Lacking the quality or ability of motion; as an inanimate object.