• n. 卡通片，[電影] 動畫片；連環漫畫
• vt. 為…畫漫畫
• vi. 畫漫畫

來自詞根cart, 卡片，詞源同card, chart. -oon, 大詞后綴。原指在硬紙板上的素描畫。

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.

在這個卡通童話里王子變成了一只青蛙。

來自柯林斯例句

2. a Walt Disney cartoon

迪斯尼動畫片

來自《權威詞典》

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

瘋狂的科學家在實驗室工作的卡通形象

來自《權威詞典》

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

他的諷刺漫畫無情地挖苦了當今的政界要人.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The cartoon diverted the children.

那部卡通片轉移了孩子們的注意力.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》