microfilm

microfilm

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ film

Noun

microfilm (countable and uncountable, plural microfilms)

1. a continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size

Translations

roll of film

Catalan: microfilm (ca) m Czech: mikrofilm m Danish: mikrofilm Dutch: microfilm (nl) m Faroese: erfilmur m, mikrofilmur m Finnish: mikrofilmi German: Mikrofilm m Greek: μικροφίλμ (el) n (mikrofílm) Hungarian: mikrofilm (hu) Icelandic: örfilma f Irish: micreascannán m Italian: microfilm (it) m Norwegian: Bokmål: mikrofilm Nynorsk: mikrofilm Russian: микрофи́льм (ru) m (mikrofílʹm) Spanish: microfilm m Swedish: mikrofilm (sv) c Yiddish: מיקראָפֿילם‎ m (mikrofilm)

Further reading

• microfilm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

microfilm (third-person singular simple present microfilms, present participle microfilming, simple past and past participle microfilmed)

1. to reproduce documents on such film

Translations

reproduce documents on microfilm

Catalan: microfilmar (ca) Dutch: microfilmen Finnish: mikrofilmata (fi) German: auf Mikrofilm sichern, auf Mikrofilm speichern Greek: αναπαράγω στο μικροφίλμ (anaparágo sto mikrofílm) Irish: cuir ar mhicreascannán Spanish: microfilmar (es)

See also

• microfiche

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French

Etymology

micro- +‎ film

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.kʁɔ.film/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

microfilm m (plural microfilms)

1. microfilm

Further reading

• “microfilm”, in [[w:Trésor de la langue française informatisé|Trésor de la langue française informatisé]] [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English microfilm.

Noun

microfilm m (invariable)

1. microfilm

Derived terms

• lettore di microfilm (“microfilm reader”)

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Romanian

Etymology

From French microfilm or German Mikrofilm.

Noun

microfilm n (plural microfilme)

1. microfilm

Declension

Declension of microfilm

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) microfilm	microfilmul	(niște) microfilme	microfilmele
genitive/dative	(unui) microfilm	microfilmului	(unor) microfilme	microfilmelor
vocative	microfilmule		microfilmelor

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English microfilm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mikɾoˈfilm/ [mi.kɾoˈfilm]
• Rhymes: -ilm
• Syllabification: mi‧cro‧film

Noun

microfilm m (plural microfilms)

1. microfilm

Derived terms

• microfilmar

Further reading

• “microfilm”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014