# animé

Pronunciation: say "AN-i-may" /ˈæ.nɪ.meɪ/

## Noun

1. Alternative spelling of anime. *(colloquial)* — Alternative spelling of anime.
   - Simple: Alternative spelling of anime. An informal way to write the word, with an accent on the last e.
   - _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._
2. A varnish resin obtained from the courbaril tree, Hymenaea courbaril.
   - Simple: A natural resin from the courbaril tree, used to make varnish.
   - _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._

## Origin

**Meaning 2** — Borrowed from French animé (“animated”), supposedly because of the insects trapped in it. It is a doublet of animate.
**Meaning 1** — Formed by adding an accent to anime to show its pronunciation, or possibly through confusion with the older French-derived word animé.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/anim%C3%A9 (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).