anime – English noun declension

English noun forms of anime

Noun: anime
Singularanime
Pluralanime; animes

Sample Sentences

  • Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon / 'Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes / That make me think the wrong thing [1998, “One Week”, performed by Barenaked Ladies:]
  • After three months of successful sales in manga form, it was made into an anime for television. [2005, Peter J. Katzenstein, A World of Regions, page 165:]
  • Usually the manga comes first, though it may be an offshoot of a novel, and an anime may be inspired by a video game. [2005, Joan D. Vinge, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, page cix:]
  • These anime prepared the way for Otaku no video, a two-part Original Video Animation (OVA). [2006, Thomas LaMarre, edited by Tomiko Yoda and Harry D. Harootunian, Japan After Japan, page 363:]
  • Originally found in the opening dialogue sequence from the 1989 Japanese space shoot’em up game “Zero Wing,” this awkward translation of the phrase “all of your bases are under our control” swept across gaming message boards and forums in the late 1990s, giving rise to one of the first epic-scale “Photoshop memes” based on poorly translated quotes from Japanese video games and animes. [2014 March 11, Ben Huh, “10 classic memes that owned the Internet”, in CNN:]
  • I can draw an anime version of you, if you want.
  • Touching on themes as disparate as sex, death, science fiction and romance, manga and anime catered to all ages and tastes. Commercial hits like “Pokémon” and “Dragon Ball Z,” meanwhile, projected a new image of Japan to the world. [2019 July 28, Emiko Jozuka, “Japanese anime: From ‘Disney of the East’ to a global industry worth billions”, in CNN:]
  • Let’s get the obvious stuff out of the way first: Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game is absolutely gorgeous. It looks like the anime, as you’d hope and want it to, animations are stunning, and it feels smooth in the way that great fighting games should. [2026 June 30, Will Borger, “Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game Has Me Excited to Get into the Lab | IGN Preview”, in IGN, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2026:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-mos
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos
5. Proto-Italic *anamos
6. Latin animus
7. Latin anima
8. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
9. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
12. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.
13. Proto-Italic *-ājō
14. Proto-Italic *-āō
15. Latin -ō
16. Latin animō
17. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
18. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
19. Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
20. Proto-Italic *-tiō
21. Latin -tiō
22. Latin animatiōlbor.
23. English animationbor.
24. Japanese アニメーション (animēshon)clip.
25. Japanese アニメ (anime)bor.
26. English anime
27. Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), itself borrowed from English animation, from Latin animātiō, from animāre. See: English Nouns 'animation', Latin Nouns 'animātiō'.

Verbs referencing "anime"

Hungarian Nouns anime, Bulgarian Nouns аниме.