animé

See also: anime, Anime, ànime, and animê

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ.nɪ.meɪ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French animé (“animated”), supposedly from the insects entrapped in it. Doublet of animate.

Alternative forms

• (improper) anime

Noun

animé (uncountable)

1. The resin of the courbaril (Hymenaea courbaril), used in varnishes.

Synonyms

• (dated) courbaril

Etymology 2

From the addition of an accent to anime to denote its pronunciation, or possibly through conflation with the above etymology.

Noun

animé (countable and uncountable, plural animé or animés)

1. (informal) Alternative spelling of anime

Anagrams

• -amine, I mean, Maine, amine, maine, manie, minae, minæ

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.me/

• Audio

  (file)

Adjective

animé (feminine singular animée, masculine plural animés, feminine plural animées)

1. alive
2. animated
3. lively

Derived terms

• dessin animé

Noun

animé m (plural animés)

1. anime

Participle

animé (feminine singular animée, masculine plural animés, feminine plural animées)

1. past participle of animer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• en ami, Maine, manie, manié, menai

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛ

Noun

animé m (plural animés)

1. Portugal form of anime

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aniˈme/, [a.niˈme]

Verb

animé

1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of animar.