animalier

English

Etymology

Borrowing from French animalier.

Noun

animalier (plural animaliers)

1. An artist who depicts animals.

   Synonym: animalist

   • 2004, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Bulletin of Victoria - Issues 44-47, page 13:

     Critics and public alike had naturally begged the question of Fremiets relationship to the leading animalier sculptor of his day, Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875). Fremiet, however, was determined not to be typecast as just an animalier artist.

   • 2006, Teresa A. Carbone, Barbara Dayer Gallati, American paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: artists born by 1876, page 991:

     Chadwick Thayer had already achieved a local reputation as an animalier when he executed this portrait of the Yorkshire terrier belonging to the Reverend John White Chadwick, who was the pastor of the Second Unitarian Church in Brooklyn (which the Thayer family attended) and who officiated at Thayer's marriage in June 1875.

   • 2007, Jesse Donahue, Erik Trump, Political Animals: Public Art in American Zoos and Aquariums, →ISBN, page 26:

     He observed that unlike humans, animals never willingly posed, which meant that an animalier had to be "an earnest student of anatomy" or he could not accurately portray his subjects.

Anagrams

• Mailerian

French

Etymology

From animal +‎ -ier.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

animalier (feminine animalière, masculine plural animaliers, feminine plural animalières)

1. (relational) animal, wildlife

Noun

animalier m (plural animaliers)

1. an artist who draws or sculpts animals, wildlife artist

Further reading

• “animalier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• laminerai

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French animalier.

Adjective

animalier m or n (feminine singular animalieră, masculine plural animalieri, feminine and neuter plural animaliere)

1. (attributive) animal, wildlife

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	animalier		animalieră		animalieri	animaliere
	definite	animalierul		animaliera		animalierii	animalierele
genitive- dative	indefinite	animalier		animaliere		animalieri	animaliere
	definite	animalierului		animalierei		animalierilor	animalierelor