different between cinema vs cinephile

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cinéma, clipping of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s), from Ancient Greek ?????? (kín?ma, “movement”) + ????? (gráph?, “write, record”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?n.?.m?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?n.?.m?/, /?s?n.?.m??/

Noun

cinema (countable and uncountable, plural cinemas)

1. (countable) A movie theatre, a movie house

   Synonyms: (regional, dated) pictures, (chiefly US) movie house, movies, (chiefly US) movie theater, (rare) movie theatre

2. (film, uncountable) Films collectively.

3. (film, uncountable) The film and movie industry.

4. (film, uncountable) The art of making films and movies; cinematography

   Synonym: seventh art

Related terms

• cine
• cinematic
• cinematographic
• cinematography
• kinema

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ?????? (sinem?)
• ? Telugu: ?????? (sinim?)

Translations

Anagrams

• Mencia, anemic, came in, iceman

Catalan

Noun

cinema m (plural cinemes)

1. cinema

Related terms

• cinematògraf
• cinematografia

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French cinéma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kín?ma, “movement”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??i.ne.ma/
• Hyphenation: cì?ne?ma

Noun

cinema m (invariable)

1. (art and industry) cinema

2. (movie theatre) cinema, movie theater, film theatre

   Synonyms: cinematografo, sala cinematografica

Related terms

See also

• teatro

Anagrams

• macine
• nemica

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French cinéma or a reduction of cinematógrafo, ultimately from Ancient Greek ?????? (kín?ma, “movement”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /si?ne.m?/
• Homophone: sinema

Noun

cinema m (plural cinemas)

1. cinema; movie theater (building where films are shown to an audience)
2. (uncountable) cinema (the art or industry of making films)

   Synonym: cinematografia

3. cinema (films from a particular place or of a particular style as a group)

Derived terms

Related terms

Romanian

Etymology

From French cinéma.

Noun

cinema n (plural cinemauri)

1. cinema

Declension

Spanish

Etymology 1

Reduction of cinematógrafo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?i?nema/, [?i?ne.ma]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /si?nema/, [si?ne.ma]

Noun

cinema m (plural cinemas)

1. cinema; movie theater (building where films are shown to an audience)

   Synonym: cine

2. cinema (the art or industry of making films)

   Synonym: cine

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Reduction of cinemática.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?i?nema/, [?i?ne.ma]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /si?nema/, [si?ne.ma]

Noun

cinema f (plural cinemas)

1. (physics) kinematics

   Synonym: cinemática

Adjective

cinema (invariable)

1. (physics) related to movement

   Synonym: cinemática

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cinéphile, equivalent to cine +? -phile.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?n?f??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?n??fa?l/

Noun

cinephile (plural cinephiles)

1. An enthusiast of films and the cinema; a cineast.
   • 2016, David Thomson, Biggest lesson of the 2016 Oscars? The Academy should be scrapped (in The Guardian, 3 March 2016)[1]

     The gulf between cinephiles and the public has grown wide. There are pictures that make a lot of money, but seldom win big Oscars or attract young people to the show

Synonyms

• filmaholic
• filmgoer
• moviegoer
• movieholic
• cineast, cineaste

Related terms

• cinephilia
• cinephilic

Translations