cartoon English · revision 7926

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1671|origins=it cartone}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /kɑːˈtuːn/ ''(UK)''; /kɑɹˈtun/ ''(US)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|fr|carton|t=pasteboard]] or directly Italian [[m|it|cartone|t=strong, heavy paper, pasteboard]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024) an augmentative of carta, paper (see [[card]], [[carton]]),^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024)^(NODE 1998) with the suffix -oon.^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A drawing on stout paper used as a model for a painting or tapestry: 1671, in John Evelyn's diary.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The drawings were so named because they were made on such paper.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) A full-page illustration in a periodical is from 1843, when ''Punch'' announced ''Punch's Cartoons'',^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) at first to advocate or attack a political faction and later merely comic.^(Etymonline) An animated film is by 1911, originally of the work of Winsor McCay, and in the OED from 1916.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) The verb, to caricature in a cartoon, is from 1864 (implied) or 1884,^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988) and ''cartoonist'' from 1880.^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1671 – a preparatory drawing.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1843 – a comic drawing in Punch.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1880 – cartoonist.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1884 – the verb.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1911 – an animated film.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A humorous or [[satire|alt=satirical]] drawing, as in a newspaper, often about current events.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A [[comic strip]].^(Collins 2023)

+ # An animated film.^(Collins 2023)^(OED 1989)

+ # A full-size preparatory drawing for a fresco, tapestry or mosaic.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To draw a [[caricature]] of.^(AHD)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[cartoonish]]

+ * [[cartoonist]]

+ * [[cartooning]]

+ * [[cartoonishly]]

+ * [[cartoonlike]]

+ * [[cartoony]]

+ * [[animated cartoon]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[carton]]

+ * [[card]]

+ * [[chart]]

+ * [[charter]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}