animator

English

Alternative forms

• animater

Etymology

animate +‎ -or

Noun

animator (plural animators)

1. One who animates something; one who brings something to life or the appearance of life.

   The android turned to gaze at its animator.

2. One who creates an animation or cartoon; a cartoonist.

   In recent years, animators using computer rendering have largely superseded artists working by hand.

Translations

one who animates something

• Esperanto: animisto
• Finnish: luoja (fi)
• French: animateur (fr) m, animatrice (fr) f
• German: Beleber m, Beleberin f, Beseeler m, Beseelerin f
• Greek: εμψυχωτής (el) m (empsychotís)
• Macedonian: животода́вач m (životodávač), заживувач m (zaživuvač)
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• Polish: animator (pl) m, animatorka (pl) f
• Portuguese: animador (pt) m, animadora (pt) f
• Romanian: animator (ro) m, animatoare (ro) f
• Russian: оживи́тель m (oživítelʹ), оживи́тельница f (oživítelʹnica), анима́тор (ru) m (animátor)
• Serbo-Croatian: animator (sh) m, animatorica f
• Swedish: skapare (sv) c, livgivare c

one who creates an animation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 動畫製作者／动画制作者, 动画制作者 (dònghuà zhìzuòzhě)

• Czech: animátor m, animátorka f
• Finnish: animaatiopiirtäjä, animaattori (fi)
• French: animateur (fr) m, animatrice (fr) f
• German: Animator m, Animatorin f, Trickfilmzeichner m, Trickfilmzeichnerin f
• Hungarian: animátor (hu)
• Icelandic: kvikari
• Indonesian: animator (id)
• Irish: beochantóir m, beogaire m
• Japanese: アニメーター (ja) (animētā)
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• Macedonian: анима́тор m (animátor)
• Maori: kaihākori
• Persian: انیماتور (animâtor)
• Polish: animator (pl) m, animatorka (pl) f
• Portuguese: animador (pt) m, animadora (pt) f
• Romanian: animator (ro) m, animatoare (ro) f
• Russian: худо́жник-мультиплика́тор (ru) m (xudóžnik-mulʹtiplikátor), анима́тор (ru) m (animátor)
• Serbo-Croatian: animator (sh) m, animatorica f
• Slovak: animátor m, animátorka f
• Spanish: animador (es) m, animadora (es) f
• Swedish: animatör (sv) c, filmtecknare c

Anagrams

• tamanoir

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) animātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of animō

References

• “animator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• animator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin animātor.

Noun

animator m pers (female equivalent animatorka)

1. (film) animator (a person who makes animated films)
2. (theater) puppeteer (a person who moves puppets during a puppet show)

   Synonym: lalkarz

3. animator (a person who motivates others to action)
4. (tourism) animator (a person who organizes activities for a group of people)

Declension

Declension of animator

	singular	plural
nominative	animator	animatorzy/animatory (deprecative)
genitive	animatora	animatorów
dative	animatorowi	animatorom
accusative	animatora	animatorów
instrumental	animatorem	animatorami
locative	animatorze	animatorach
vocative	animatorze	animatorzy

Related terms

adjective

• animacyjny

 

noun

• animacja

 

verb

• animować

 

Further reading

• animator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• animator in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French animateur. Equivalent to anima +‎ -tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.maˈtor/

Adjective

animator m or n (feminine singular animatoare, masculine plural animatori, feminine and neuter plural animatoare)

• animative, invigorating, vitalizing

Declension

Declension of animator

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	animator		animatoare	animatori	animatoare
	definite	animatorul		animatoarea	animatorii	animatoarele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	animator		animatoare	animatori	animatoare
	definite	animatorului		animatoarei	animatorilor	animatoarelor

Synonyms

• înviorător, însuflețitor

Noun

animator m (plural animatori, feminine equivalent animatoare)

1. animator
2. cartoonist, animator

Declension

Declension of animator

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) animator	animatorul	(niște) animatori	animatorii
genitive/dative	(unui) animator	animatorului	(unor) animatori	animatorilor
vocative	animatorule		animatorilor

Related terms

• anima
• animare
• animat
• animatism
• animato
• animato
• animație, animațiune

See also

• inimă

References

• animator in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From animírati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /anǐmaːtor/
• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧ma‧tor

Noun

anìmātor m (Cyrillic spelling анѝма̄тор)

1. animator

Declension

Declension of animator

	singular	plural
nominative	animator	animatori
genitive	animatora	animatora
dative	animatoru	animatorima
accusative	animatora	animatore
vocative	animatore	animatori
locative	animatoru	animatorima
instrumental	animatorom	animatorima

References

• “animator”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024