animation

See also: Animation

English

An animation of a collapsing building.

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 animatiōlbor.

English animation

Learned borrowing from Latin animatiō, from animō, equivalent to animate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ə.nɪˈme.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

animation (countable and uncountable, plural animations)

1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit.
   • 1647, Joseph Hall, Christ Mysticall; or the blessed union of Christ and his Members, as edited and reprinted in Josiah Pratt (editor), The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall, D.D., Volume 8, C. Wittingham (1808), page 217:

     […] by the animation of the same soul quickening that whole frame.

2. (animation, in the sense of a cartoon) A sequence of still drawings or inanimate objects displayed in rapid succession to create the illusion of movement in motion pictures or computer graphics; the object (film, computer game, etc.) produced
3. The state of being lively, brisk, or full of spirit and vigor; vivacity; spiritedness

   He recited the story with great animation.

4. The condition of being animate or alive.
   • 1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation.

5. (linguistics) conversion from the inanimate to animate grammatical category
   • 1992, Samuel E. Martin, A Reference Grammar of Korean, page 291:

     "The constraints are not so hard and fast that exceptional sentences do not occur. In particular animation and disanimation can temporarily suspend the system."

6. Activities offered by a holiday resort encompassing activities that include movement, joy, leisure and spectacle, such as games, sports, shows, events, etc.

Synonyms

• (the act of breathing life into something): vitalization, vivification, enlivenment
• (the state of being lively): airiness, ardor, buoyancy, earnestness, energy, enthusiasm, liveliness, promptitude, spirit, sprightliness, vivacity
• (the condition of being alive): life

Derived terms

• animalcule
• animalesque
• animalhood
• animalian
• animalicide
• animalish
• animalism
• animalivore
• animalivorous
• animalize
• animalkind
• animally
• animalness
• animaloid
• animation meme
• animation studio
• antianimal
• companimal
• deanimation
• disanimation
• humanimal
• interanimal
• intraanimal
• koranimal
• microanimal
• multianimal
• nonanimal
• physically based animation
• planimal
• reanimation
• semianimal
• stop-go animation
• superanimal
• suspended animation
• time series animation
• vegetoanimal
• vegeto-mineral
• wereanimal

Descendants

• → 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)

Translations

the act of animating

• Bulgarian: съживя́ване (bg) n (sǎživjávane)
• Czech: animování n, oživení n
• Danish: animation c
• Finnish: elävöittäminen (fi)
• French: animation (fr) f, invigoration (fr) f
• Georgian: გაცოცხლება (gacocxleba)
• German: Belebung (de) f, Vitalisierung f
• Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: animo (io)
• Indonesian: animasi (id)
• Italian: ravvivamento m, animazione (it) f, vivificazione f
• Latin: animātiō f
• Māori: hākoritanga
• Portuguese: animação (pt) f
• Romanian: animare (ro) f, însuflețire (ro) f
• Russian: оживле́ние (ru) n (oživlénije), одушевле́ние (ru) n (oduševlénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: beothachadh m
• Slovak: oživenie n
• Spanish: vivificación, animación (es)
• Swedish: animering (sv) c

causing images to appear to move

• Albanian: animacion m
• Arabic: إِحْيَاء m (ʔiḥyāʔ), تَحْرِيك m (taḥrīk), تَحْرِيك صُوَر m (taḥrīk ṣuwar)
• Armenian: անիմացիա (hy) (animacʻia), մուլտիպլիկացիա (hy) (multiplikacʻia)
• Azerbaijani: animasiya, multiplikasiya
• Belarusian: аніма́цыя f (animácyja), мультыпліка́цыя f (mulʹtyplikácyja)
• Bengali: অ্যানিমেশন (bn) (ênimeśon)
• Bulgarian: анима́ция (bg) f (animácija)
• Burmese: အန်နီမေးရှင်း (annime:hrang:)
• Catalan: animació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 動畫 / 动画 (zh) (dònghuà), 動漫 / 动漫 (zh) (dòngmàn)

• Czech: animace (cs) f
• Danish: animation c
• Dutch: animatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: animacio
• Estonian: animatsioon, multiplikatsioon
• Finnish: animaatio (fi) (technique; result), animointi (fi) (technique)
• French: animation (fr)
• Galician: animación (gl) f
• Georgian: ანიმაცია (animacia), მულტიპლიკაცია (mulṭiṗliḳacia)
• German: Animation (de) f
• Greek: απεικόνιση (el) f (apeikónisi)
• Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: הַנְפָּשָׁה (he) f (hanpashá)
• Hindi: एनिमेशन (enimeśan)
• Hungarian: élénkség (hu), elevenség (hu)
• Icelandic: hreyfimynd f
• Indonesian: animasi (id)
• Irish: beochan f
• Italian: animazione (it)
• Japanese: アニメーション (ja) (animēshon), アニメ (ja) (anime)
• Kazakh: анимация (animasiä), мультипликация (multiplikasiä)
• Korean: 애니메이션 (ko) (aenimeisyeon), 아니메 (ko) (anime)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: anîmasyon (ku)

• Kyrgyz: анимация (animatsiya), мультипликация (multiplikatsiya)
• Latvian: animācija f, multiplikācija f
• Lithuanian: animacija f, multiplikacija f
• Macedonian: анимација f (animacija)
• Malay: animasi (ms), dalangan
• Māori: hākoritanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: animasjon m

  Nynorsk: animasjon m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اَنیمِیْشِن (animeyšen), پویانَمایی (puyânamâyi)

• Polish: animacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: animação (pt) f
• Romanian: animație (ro) f
• Russian: анима́ция (ru) f (animácija), мультиплика́ция (ru) f (mulʹtiplikácija)
• Scottish Gaelic: beothachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: анима́ција f

  Latin: animácija (sh) f

• Sinhalese: සජීවිකරණය (sajīwikaraṇaya)
• Slovak: animácia f
• Slovene: animacija f
• Spanish: animación (es) f
• Swahili: uhaishaji
• Swedish: animation (sv) c
• Tajik: аниматсия (tg) (animatsiya), мултипликатсия (tg) (multiplikatsiya), пӯёнамоӣ (püyonamoyi)
• Thai: แอนิเมชัน (ɛɛ-ní-mee-chân)
• Turkish: animasyon (tr)
• Turkmen: animasiýa, multiplikasiýa
• Ukrainian: аніма́ція f (animácija), мультипліка́ція f (mulʹtyplikácija)
• Urdu: اینی میشَن (enī meśan)
• Uzbek: animatsiya, multiplikatsiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: hoạt hình (vi), hoạt họa (vi)
• Welsh: animeiddio (cy) m (the process of amimation), animeddiad m (a single act of amimation or the result of animation)

Anagrams

• amination

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin animātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.ma.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

animation f (plural animations)

1. animation

Further reading

• “animation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Swedish

Noun

animation c

1. animation

Declension

Declension of animation

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	animation	animations
	definite	animationen	animationens
plural	indefinite	animationer	animationers
	definite	animationerna	animationernas