cinema

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A building where people go to watch films.

   The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant.

2. 2
   noun

   The film industry, or films considered as an art form.

   She has written several books on the history of Spanish cinema.

Simplified etymology

Cinema is an early 20th-century shortening of cinematograph, the Anglicized form of French cinématographe. The Lumière brothers formed the French term for their moving-picture apparatus from Greek kinein, meaning “to move,” and patented it in 1895; cinema is first recorded in English in 1909.

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…

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