animar

Borrowed from Latin animō, animāre.

animar (first-person singular indicative present animo, past participle animáu)

1. to animate
2. to encourage

Borrowed from Latin animāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.niˈma]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [a.niˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -a(ɾ)

animar (first-person singular present animo, first-person singular preterite animí, past participle animat)

1. to animate

Borrowed from English animate, French animer, German animieren, Italian animare, Spanish animar. Decision no. 754, Progreso V.

• IPA^(key): /aniˈmar/

animar (present animas, past animis, future animos, conditional animus, imperative animez)

1. (transitive) to animate: endow with life
2. (transitive) to enliven, give animation to

   Me prizas filmi animita. ― I like animated movies.

• Progreso II (in Ido), 1909–1910, page 706
• Progreso III (in Ido), 1910–1911, page 208
• Progreso V (in Ido), 1912–1913, page 657, 31

Borrowed from Latin animāre.

• Hyphenation: a‧ni‧mar

animar (first-person singular present animo, first-person singular preterite animei, past participle animado)

1. (transitive) to cheer someone up (to make someone stop being sad)

   Comprei um jogo para animar meu amigo. ― I bought a game to cheer my friend up.

2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to cheer up (to stop being sad)

   Fui ver um filme para me animar. ― I went see a film in order to cheer up.

3. (transitive) to inspire; to enliven

   A descoberta dos novos poços de petróleo animou o mercado. ― The discovery of the new oil wells enlivened the market.

4. (art, transitive) to animate (to give the appearance of motion to)

   O desenhista mandou os quadros para eu animar. ― The draughtsman sent the panels for me to animate.

5. (emergency medicine, transitive) to resuscitate (to restore conscience to)

   Reanimaram a vítima com um desfibrilador. ― They resuscitated the victim with a defibrillator.

animar m (invariable)

1. Eye dialect spelling of animal, representing Caipira Portuguese.

Borrowed from Latin animāre.

• IPA^(key): /aniˈmaɾ/ [a.niˈmaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: a‧ni‧mar

animar (first-person singular present animo, first-person singular preterite animé, past participle animado)

1. (transitive) to inspire
2. (transitive) to encourage
3. (transitive) to animate
4. (transitive) to cheer on
5. (reflexive) to cheer up (to become happy)
6. (reflexive) to dare, to have the courage to, to bring oneself to, to have the heart to
7. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to decide
8. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to feel like, to be down for (US slang)

   Synonym: apetecer

• “animar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014