Etymology

animater

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English animate ← Middle English animat(e) ← Latin animātus
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂enh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂enh₁mos
  3. Proto-Italic*anamos
  4. Latinanimus
  5. Latinanima
  6. Latinanimō
  7. Latinanimātus
  8. Middle Englishanimat(e)
  9. Englishanimate
  10. English todayanimater

From animate + -er.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.