anime

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  1. noun A style of animation developed in Japan, characterized by stylized colorful art and often adult themes.

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  1. Japanese, short for animēshon, animation, from English animation.

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  1. Sometimes accented like equivalent F. animé, on the fancy that it is so called because often “animé” (from Latin animatus: see animate, adjective) or “alive” with insects; but English properly anime = French anime (Cotgrave), now animé, Spanish Portuguese anime (New Latin anime, animi, also anijmum), applied in the middle of the 16th century, and prob. earlier, to a gum brought from the East by the Portuguese; afterward applied to a similar product from the West Indies. The word, which has not been found native in the East or elsewhere, is said by Ray and others to be a Portuguese corruption of aminæa, Greek ἀμιναῖα (Dioscorides), a resinous gum, this name being apparently an adjective (sc. σμύρνα, myrrh), referring to a people of Arabia bordering on the Red Sea, from whom the gum was obtained. Elemi is a different word.
 

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