cartoon

• n. 漫画、[映画]アニメーション; コミックストリップ
• 画漫画
• vi.漫画を描く

cart, cardが語源で、語源的にはcard, chartと同じ。もともとは厚紙に描いたスケッチ。

cartoon

cartoon: [17] Cartoon comes via French carton from Italian cartone, which meant literally ‘strong heavy paper, pasteboard’ (it was a derivative of carta ‘paper’, which came from Latin charta, source also of English card, carton, chart, and charter). Its meaning was in due course transferred to the preliminary sketches made by artists on such paper, the original and for nearly two centuries the only sense of the word in English; ‘But the sight best pleased me was the cartoons by Raphael, which are far beyond all the paintings I ever saw’, Hatton family correspondence, 1697.

Its application to comic drawings in newspapers and magazines began in the 1840s.
=> card, carton, chart, charter

cartoon (n.)

1670s, "a drawing on strong paper (used as a model for another work)," from French carton, from Italian cartone "strong, heavy paper, pasteboard," thus "preliminary sketches made by artists on such paper" (see carton). Extension to comical drawings in newspapers and magazines is 1843.

Punch has the benevolence to announce, that in an early number of his ensuing Volume he will astonish the Parliamentary Committee by the publication of several exquisite designs, to be called Punch's Cartoons! ["Punch," June 24, 1843]

Also see -oon.

cartoon (v.)

1864 (implied in cartooned), from cartoon (n.). Related: Cartooning.

1. A prince turns into a frog in this cartoon fairytale.

この漫画童話で王子はカエルになった。

2.a Walt Disney cartoon

ディズニーアニメ

3.the cartoon figure of the mad scientist working in his laboratory

クレイジーな科学者が実験室で働くキャラクター

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4.His cartoon mercilessly lampoon the leading politician of the day.

彼の風刺漫画は、今の政界の要人を容赦なく皮肉った。

5.The cartoon diverted the children.

そのカードは子供たちの注意力をそらした。