Etymology

suitmation

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Today it means: A makeup special effects technique for portraying enormous creatures, by having an actor wear a suit near a set of minatures. Full definition →

Japanese スーツメーション ← English suit
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The story

  1. English · derived fromanimation
  2. English · derived fromsuit
  3. Japanese · borrowed fromスーツメーション
  4. English todaysuitmation

From Japanese スーツメーション, from blend of English suit + English animation. Originally used to describe the technique used on Gojira (Godzilla) to make the creature come to life.

Words from the same roots

Englishanimation all →

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