Noun: animation
| Singular | animation |
| Plural | animations |
Sample Sentences
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[…] by the animation of the same soul quickening that whole frame. [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]
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He recited the story with great animation.
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Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I possess of animation. [1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:]
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"The constraints are not so hard and fast that exceptional sentences do not occur. In particular animation and disanimation can temporarily suspend the system." [1992, Samuel E. Martin, A Reference Grammar of Korean, page 291:]
Nouns inflected like animation
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-mos
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos
5. Proto-Italic *anamos
6. Latin animus
7. Latin anima
8. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
12. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
13. Proto-Italic *-ājō
14. Proto-Italic *-āō
15. Latin -ō
16. Latin animō
17. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
18. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
19. Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
20. Proto-Italic *-tiō
21. Latin -tiō
22. Latin animatiōlbor.
23. English animation
24. Learned borrowing from Latin animatiō, from animō, equivalent to animate + -ion.
Verbs referencing "animation"
French Nouns
animé, English Nouns
anime, Dutch Nouns
anime, Finnish Nouns
anime, Hungarian Nouns
anime, Portuguese Nouns
anime, Romanian Nouns
anime, Spanish Nouns
anime, German Nouns
Anime, Finnish Nouns
animaatio, Bulgarian Nouns
аниме, Spanish Nouns
animación, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
animasjon, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
animasjon, Dutch Nouns
animatie.