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English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese ??? (anime), an abbreviation of ??????? (anim?shon), itself borrowed from English animation.

Alternative forms

• animé

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æn.?.me?/, /?æn.?.m?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æn.?.me?/

Noun

anime (countable and uncountable, plural anime or animes)

1. (uncountable) An artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries.

   I can draw an anime version of you, if you want.

2. (countable) An animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style.
   • 2005, Peter J. Katzenstein, A World of Regions, page 165,

     After three months of successful sales in manga form, it was made into an anime for television.

   • 2005, Joan D. Vinge, in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, page cix,

     Usually the manga comes first, though it may be an offshoot of a novel, and an anime may be inspired by a video game.

   • 2006, Thomas LaMarre, in Japan After Japan (Tomiko Yoda & Harry D. Harootunian, eds.), page 363,

     These anime prepared the way for Otaku no video, a two-part Original Video Animation (OVA).

3. (rare, countable, chiefly proscribed) An animated work, regardless of the country of origin.

Synonyms

• (a Japanese animated work): Japanimation (dated), Japanime (dated)

Coordinate terms

• (a Japanese animated work): manga (a Japanese graphic illustration work)

Derived terms

• (a Japanese animated work): animanga
• (an animated work): Japanime

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French animé (“animated”) (from the insects that are entrapped in it); or native name.

Noun

anime (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of animé, the resin of the courbaril.

Anagrams

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

Afrikaans

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??? (anime), an abbreviation of ??????? (anim?shon), ultimately from English animation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??i.m?/

Noun

anime (plural anime)

1. anime (Japanese animation)

Basque

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??? (anime), an abbreviation of ??????? (anim?shon), ultimately from English animation.

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /a.ni.me/

Noun

anime inan

1. tatami

Declension

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??? (anime), an abbreviation of ??????? (anim?shon), ultimately from English animation.

Noun

anime

1. anime

Derived terms

• animefigur

Esperanto

Etymology

animo +? -e.

Adverb

anime

1. in one’s soul; spiritually
   • (Can we date this quote?) Lydia Zamenhof (translator), Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Part 1, Chapter 26,

     ?i sentis, ke tiu nefleksebla kaj dan?era homo apartenas nun al ?i anime kaj korpe, kiel sklavo

     she felt that that unbending and dangerous man belonged to her now, soul and body, like a slave (Jeremiah Curtin translation)

2. in one’s mind; mentally, psychologically
   • (Can we date this quote?) Jurij Finkel (translator), La Horo de Bovo (??? ???? / The Bull’s Hour) by Ivan Yefremov, Chapter 7,

     Kiom da trompoj ankora? atendas ?i tie, precipe inter homoj, tute similaj al la teraj kaj tiom malsamaj anime!

     How many misapprehensions were still in store here, especially among people [who] looked just like Terrans but whose minds were so unlike theirs (lit. so different mentally)!

   • (Can we date this quote?) István Nemere, “Tunelo helnigra,” review of La tunelo by Marco Picasso, in Literatura Foiro 176, December 1998,

     Certe estas tiaj situacioj en la vivo de ni ?iuj. Kaj en la romano mi trovis lokojn, kie mi ekkriis anime: “Jen, tion anka? mi verkus samtiel!”

     There are certainly situations like that in all of our lives. And in the novel I found places, where in my head I would exclaim: “That’s just how I would have written it, too!”

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??? (anime), an abbreviation of ??????? (anim?shon), ultimately from English animation.

Noun

anime

1. anime

Declension

Anagrams

• Maine, Minea, Naemi, maine

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.nim/

Verb

anime

1. first-person singular present indicative of animer
2. third-person singular present indicative of animer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of animer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of animer
5. second-person singular imperative of animer

Anagrams

• en ami, Maine, manie, manié, menai

Friulian

Alternative forms

• ànime

Etymology

From Latin anima (“breath, soul”) (cf. Italian alma, Romansch olma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.ni.me/

Noun

anime f (plural animis)

1. soul

Related terms

• animâ
• nemâl

Hungarian

Etymology

From English anime, from Japanese ??? (anime), an abbreviation of ??????? (anim?shon), ultimately from English animation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??nim?]
• Hyphenation: ani?me
• Rhymes: -m?

Noun

anime (plural animék)

1. anime (artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation)
2. anime (animated work originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style)

Declension

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??? (anime), an abbreviation of ??????? (anim?shon), itself borrowed from English animation. Doublet of aeni and animasi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?anime]
• Hyphenation: ani?mé

Noun

anime

1. anime: an artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries.

   Hypernym: animasi

Further reading

• “anime” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -anime

Noun

anime f pl

1. plural of anima

Anagrams

• ameni, emani, emina, manie, menai

Japanese

Romanization

anime

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.ni.me/, [?än?m?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.ni.me/, [???nim?]

Noun

anime m

1. vocative singular of animus

Polish

Etymology

From Japanese ??? (anime), an abbreviation of ??????? (anim?shon), ultimately from English animation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??i.m?/

Noun

anime n (indeclinable)

1. (animation) anime

Further reading

• anime in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• anime in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese ??? (anime), an abbreviation of ??????? (anim?shon), ultimately from English animation.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.?ni.mi/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /a.?ni.m(?)/, /?.?ni.m(?)/, /a.?ni.me/
• Hyphenation: a?ni?me

Noun

anime m (plural animes)

1. anime (Japanese animation)

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:anime.

Alternative forms

• animé, animê

Related terms

• animação, animar

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?.?ni.m(?)/
• Hyphenation: a?ni?me

Verb

anime

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of animar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of animar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of animar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of animar

References

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??? (anime), an abbreviation of ??????? (anim?shon), ultimately from English animation.

Noun

anime n (plural animeuri)

1. anime

Verb

anime

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of anima
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of anima

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?nime/, [a?ni.me]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese ??? (anime), an abbreviation of ??????? (anim?shon), ultimately from English animation.

Noun

anime m (plural animes)

1. anime

Alternative forms

• ánime

Etymology 2

See animar.

Verb

anime

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of animar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of animar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of animar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of animar.

Etymology 3

From Medieval Latin amineus (“white”).

Noun

anime m (uncountable)

1. animé (resin)
2. (Cuba, Ecuador) courbaril (Hymenaea courbaril)
3. (Venezuela) expanded polystyrene (EPS), styrofoam

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:poliestireno expandido

Further reading

• “anime” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

[circa 1540] From French réalité (“quality of being real”), from Middle French realité (“property, possession”), from Medieval Latin re?lit?s, from Late Latin re?lis (“real”), equivalent to real +? -ity. Recorded since 1550 as a legal term in the sense of “fixed property” (compare real estate, realty); the sense “real existence” is attested from 1647.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i?æl?ti/, /?i?æl?ti/
• Rhymes: -æl?ti

Noun

reality (usually uncountable, plural realities)

1. The state of being actual or real.

   • A man very often fancies that he understands a critic, when in reality he does not comprehend his meaning.
2. A real entity, event or other fact.
   • 1770, James Beattie, Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth

     My neck, Sir, may be an idea to you, but to me it is a reality.
3. The entirety of all that is real.
4. An individual observer's own subjective perception of that which is real.
5. (obsolete) Loyalty; devotion.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State

     To express our reality to the emperor.

6. (law, obsolete) Realty; real estate.

Synonyms

• truth
• actuality

Antonyms

• fantasy

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Usage notes

Adjectives that collocate with reality include: harsh; stark; brutal; grim; bitter

Further reading

• reality on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• irately, tearily

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English reality. Doublet of realidad.

Noun

reality m (plural realities or realitys)

1. (television) reality show

   Synonym: reality show