animatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos

Proto-Italic *anamos

Latin animus

Latin anima

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin animō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin animātiō

From animō (“animate, give life to”) + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.nɪˈmaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.niˈmat.t͡si.o]

Noun

animātiō f (genitive animātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of animating or giving life to, animation.
2. A living being, form of life.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	animātiō	animātiōnēs
genitive	animātiōnis	animātiōnum
dative	animātiōnī	animātiōnibus
accusative	animātiōnem	animātiōnēs
ablative	animātiōne	animātiōnibus
vocative	animātiō	animātiōnēs

Related terms

• animāns
• animātor
• animātrīx
• animātus
• animō

Descendants

• Asturian: animación
• Catalan: animació
• French: animation
• Galician: animación
• Italian: animazione
• Occitan: animacion
• Portuguese: animação
• Romanian: animație
• Spanish: animación
• → English: animation
  • → Hindi: एनिमेशन (enimeśan)
  • → Japanese: アニメーション (animēshon)
  • → Korean: 애니메이션 (aenimeisyeon)
  • → Thai: แอนิเมชัน (ɛɛ-ní-mee-chân)
  • → Urdu: اینی میشَن (enī meśan)
• → Hungarian: animáció
• → Russian: анима́ция (animácija)
  • → Kazakh: анимация (animasiä)

References

• “animatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “animatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “animatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.