Other forms: animated, animating, animates
To animate is to bring to life, or to make drawings appear to move. Animate the character, an animated discussion, animate the sequence.
The adjective animated means lively, and an animated discussion is one where everybody is talking at once. The Latin means to fill with breath, from anima, which is where animal comes from too.
1verbanimateTo bring to life, or to make drawings appear to move.
“The artist spent months animating the short film, drawing every frame by hand.”
animate is a enlivening.
Latin animare means to give breath to, from anima, breath or soul.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂enh₁-
Latin
animātus
Middle English
animate
English, today
animate
Built from
From Middle English animate, from Latin animātus, perfect passive participle of animō (“to fill with breath, quicken, encourage, animate”) (see -ate), from anima (“soul, spirit, breath”); see anima. The verb derives from the adjective, see -ate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA