cinématographe
French
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + -graphe; coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.ne.ma.tɔ.ɡʁaf/
Noun
cinématographe m (plural cinématographes)
- cinematograph
Descendants
- → Asturian: cinematógrafu
- → Basque: zinematografo
- → Belarusian: кинематограф (kinjematóhraf)
- → Catalan: cinematògraf
- → Czech: kinematograf
- → Dutch: cinematograaf
- → English: cinematograph
- → Finnish: kinematografi
- → Georgian: სინემატოგრაფი (sinemaṭograpi)
- → German: Kinematograph
- ⇒ German: Kino (see there for further descendants)
- → Hebrew: סינמטוגרף
- → Hungarian: kinematográf
- → Indonesian: sinematograf
- → Italian: cinematografo
- → Japanese: シネマトグラフ (shinematogurafu)
- → Korean: 시네마토그래프 (sinematogeuraepeu)
- → Malay: sinematograf
- → Norwegian: kinematograf
- → Persian: سینماتوگراف
- → Polish: kinematograf
- → Portuguese: cinematógrafo
- → Russian: кинематограф (kinematograf)
- → Serbo-Croatian: kinematograf / кинематограф
- → Spanish: cinematógrafo
- → Swedish: kinematograf
- → Turkish: sinematograf
Further reading
- “cinématographe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.