cinema

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A movie theatre, a movie house.

   The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant.

2. 2
   noun

   Films collectively.

   Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.

3. 3
   noun

   The film and movie industry.

   In the long history of Spanish cinema[…].

4. 4
   noun

   The art of making films and movies; cinematography.

   Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers[…].

5. 5
   noun

   a theater where films are shown

6. 6
   noun

   a medium that disseminates moving pictures

7. 7
   noun

   A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *keyh₂-der. Ancient Greek κινέω (kinéō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μα (-ma) Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma) Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γράφος (-gráphos)bor. Latin -graphuslbor. French -graphe French cinématographeclip. French cinémabor. English cinema Borrowed from French cinéma, clipping of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s), from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write, record”). Compare German Kino (“cinema”), ultimately…