animé
Pluralanimé, animés
- 1Alternative spelling of anime.
The shop has a whole aisle of manga and animé, and it's always full of teenagers.
The series started as a comic and became an animé two years later.
Note
The accent was added to show that the final e is sounded, and the spelling may also have been pulled toward the varnish resin, which is written the same way. Like anime, it is uncountable for the style and countable for a single work, so a story can appear as an animé and as a manga. It is informal; in careful writing, plain anime is the safer choice.
- 2A varnish resin obtained from the courbaril tree, Hymenaea courbaril.
The restorer matched the cabinet's original finish with a varnish made from animé.
Animé gathered from the courbaril was shipped to varnish makers in wooden crates.
Note
The resin's name is French for "animated", supposedly from the insects found trapped inside it. That makes it a doublet of animate, the same word arriving in English by a second road and keeping its French accent. As a material it is uncountable: varnish is made from animé, not from an animé.
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Origins
Borrowed from French animé (“animated”), supposedly because of the insects trapped in it. It is a doublet of animate.
Formed by adding an accent to anime to show its pronunciation, or possibly through confusion with the older French-derived word animé.