🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

animazione

Pronunciation / Transliteration: animazione

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Animation/ˌæn.ɪˈmeɪ.ʃən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2450 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Adoro i film di animazione giapponesi."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The technique of photographing successive drawings or positions of puppets or models to create an illusion of movement when the movie is shown as a sequence.

    "The studio is famous for its groundbreaking computer animation."
  2. 2

    Liveliness, enthusiasm, or vigor.

    "Her face was suddenly animated with excitement."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'animatio', meaning 'a giving of life', stemming from 'animare' (to endow with life, from 'anima' meaning breath or soul). In the 20th century, the term evolved from describing the general animation of static images into the specialized medium of photographic and digital motion picture production.

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