animator

• animater (obsolete)

From Latin animātor. By surface analysis, animate +‎ -or. Piecewise doublet of animateur.

• IPA^(key): /ˈænɪˌmeɪtə(ɹ)/

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animator (plural animators)

1. (art) One who creates an animation or cartoon; a cartoonist.

   In recent years, animators using computer rendering have largely superseded artists working by hand.

2. One who animates something; one who brings something to life or the appearance of life.

   The android turned to gaze at its animator.

• Omartian, montaria, tamanoir, Taormina

Borrowed from Latin animātor.

animator c (singular definite animatoren, plural indefinite animatorer)

1. (art) animator

• “animator” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English animator.

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animator m (plural animatoren, diminutive animatortje n)

1. (art) animator
2. (tourism) animateur

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

animator

Wikipedia ^id

Borrowed from English animator. Doublet of animater.

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.ˈma.tɔr/
• Rhymes: -tɔr
• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧ma‧tor

animator (plural animator-animator)

1. (art) animator, cartoonist: one who creates an animation or cartoon

• “animator” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

animātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of animō

• “animator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "animator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

animator

Wikipedia ^pl

Borrowed from French animateur, from Latin animō +‎ -ato. First attested in 1915.

• IPA^(key): /a.ɲiˈma.tɔr/

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• Rhymes: -atɔr
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧ma‧tor

animator m pers (female equivalent animatorka)

1. (film) animator (person who makes animated films)
2. (theater) puppeteer (person who moves puppets during a puppet show)

   Synonym: lalkarz

   animator teatralny ― theater puppeteer

   animator lalek ― puppeteer

   animator teatru ― theater puppeteer

3. animator (person who motivates others to action)
4. (tourism) animator (person who organizes activities for a group of people)

• animator in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• animator in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• animator in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Borrowed from French animateur. Equivalent to anima +‎ -tor.

• IPA^(key): /a.ni.maˈtor/

animator m or n (feminine singular animatoare, masculine plural animatori, feminine and neuter plural animatoare)

1. animative, invigorating, vitalizing

• înviorător, însuflețitor

animator m (plural animatori, feminine equivalent animatoare)

1. animator
2. cartoonist, animator

• inimă

• “animator”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

From animírati.

• IPA^(key): /anǐmaːtor/
• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧ma‧tor

anìmātor m anim (Cyrillic spelling анѝма̄тор)

1. animator

• “animator”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025