different between cinematography vs cinema

English

Etymology

From French cinématographie.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?n.?.m??t??.??.fi?/
• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

cinematography (countable and uncountable, plural cinematographies)

1. The art, process, or job of filming movies.
2. Motion picture photography.

Usage notes

• Traditionally the term "cinematography" referred to working with motion picture film emulsion, but it is now largely synonymous with videography due to the use of digital technology in both fields.

Synonyms

• film-craft
• filmmaking

Derived terms

• cinematographer

Related terms

• cinema
• cinematic
• cinematology

Translations

See also

• DP (director of photography)
• photography
• videography

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.