cinema
pronunciation
How to pronounce cinema in British English:
UK [ˈsɪnəmə]
How to pronounce cinema in American English:
US [ˈsɪnəmə]
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- Noun:
- a medium that disseminates moving pictures
- a theater where films are shown
Word Origin
- cinema
- cinema: [20] The cinema is so named because it shows moving pictures. The Greek verb for ‘move’ was kīnein (source of English kinetic and, via the related Latin cīre, a range of -cite words, including excite, incite, and recite). Its noun derivative was kínēma ‘movement’, from which in 1896 Auguste and Louis Jean Lumière coined the French term cinématographe for their new invention for recording and showing moving pictures.This and its abbreviated form cinéma soon entered English, the latter in 1909. In early years the graecized form kinema had some currency in English, but this had virtually died out by the 1940s.=> cite, excite, kinetic, incite, recite
- cinema (n.)
- 1899, "a movie hall," from French cinéma, shortened from cinématographe "motion picture projector and camera," coined 1890s by Lumiere brothers, who invented it, from Latinized form of Greek kinemat-, comb. form of kinema "movement," from kinein "to move" (see cite) + graphein "to write" (see -graphy). Meaning "movies collectively, especially as an art form" recorded by 1914. Cinéma vérité is 1963, from French.
Example
- 1. Open adobe photoshop and the image rendered in cinema 4d .
- 2. This could be british cinema 's must-see of 2012 .
- 3. Any serious journey into the cinema sooner or later arrives at his work .
- 4. What it does do is make modern war into participatory cinema .
- 5. The primness of indian cinema is at odds with wider society .