animé · noun1
- French · borrowed fromanimé“animated”
- English todayanimé
Borrowed from French animé (“animated”), supposedly from the insects entrapped in it. Doublet of animate.
animé · noun2
From the addition of an accent to anime to denote its pronunciation, or possibly through conflation with the above etymology.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.