cinema

名词 n.
/ˈsɪn.ɪ.mə/|/ˈsɪn.ɪ.mɑː/    /ˈsɪn.ə.mə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A movie theatre, a movie house. countable
    — The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant.
  2. Films collectively. uncountable
    — Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.
  3. The film and movie industry. uncountable
    — In the long history of Spanish cinema[…].
  4. The art of making films and movies; cinematography. countable,uncountable
    — Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers[…].
  5. A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema. Internet,uncountable
  6. A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.; Any media or event that is exemplary. Internet,broadly,countable,humorous,uncountable
    — That game was absolute cinema.

词形变化

cinemas plural

词源

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 from the same Greek source.
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