Soul English name of Latin origin. Actually the word anima, means
anger, courage, essence, feeling, mind, passion, spirit It derives from PIE root
ane-, meaning
to breathe, the same root from which the words animal and animation were derived. But in
Christian contexts, the word anima was used to translate the Greek word psykhe into
soul (not
spirit which is a different word), and this is the same anima from which the personal name was derived.