"cinema" in seven languages
Meaningcinema
Spanish
cine
/ˈθine/
masc.borrowed · French cinéma
French
cinéma
/sinema/
masc.learned
Short for cinématographe, the Lumière brothers' machine.
Italian
cinema
/ˈtʃinema/
masc.borrowed · French cinéma
Stressed on the first syllable, and invariable: i cinema.
Portuguese
cinema
/siˈnemɐ/
masc.borrowed · French cinéma
Romanian
cinema
/tʃineˈma/
neut.borrowed · French cinéma
Catalan
cinema
/siˈnɛmə/
masc.borrowed · French cinéma
English
cinema
/ˈsɪnəmə/
from Latin/French · French cinéma
English → ItaliancinemacinemaCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The ancestor
Greek kínēma‘movement’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A French coinage from Greek 'movement-writing'. Spanish clipped it further to cine; Italian kept cinema but moved the stress to the front.
English relatives: cinema, kinetic
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In a sentence
- es¿Vamos al cine?
- frOn va au cinéma ?
- itAndiamo al cinema?
- ptVamos ao cinema?
- roMergem la cinema?
- caAnem al cinema?
- enShall we go to the cinema?