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theater
English
Alternative forms
- theatre (standard spelling in all English-speaking countries that use British spelling)
Etymology
From Middle English theater, theatre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from ??????? (theáomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”). Doublet of tiatr.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??i(?)t?/, sometimes /????.t?/
- (Canada, Southern American English) IPA(key): /??i(?)t?/, /??i.e?.t?/
- (UK) IPA(key): /??i??.t?/, /????.t?/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /??i?t?/, [??i??t?], [??i????]
Noun
theater (countable and uncountable, plural theaters) (American spelling)
- A place or building, consisting of a stage and seating, in which an audience gathers to watch plays, musical performances, public ceremonies, and so on.
- A region where a particular action takes place; a specific field of action, usually with reference to war.
- A lecture theatre.
- (medicine) An operating theatre or locale for human experimentation.
- (US) A cinema.
- Drama or performance as a profession or art form.
- Any place rising by steps like the seats of a theater.
Usage notes
- The spelling theatre is the main spelling in British English, with theater being rare.
- In United States English, theater accounts for about 80 percent of usage in the major corpus of usage, COCA.
- Among American theatre professionals, there is some usage of the two spellings in order to differentiate between the location theater (as in definitions 1–5) and the art-form theatre (definition 6). A variant of this differentiation is the usage of theatre for things relating to live performances (as in definitions 1 and 6) with theater being used for all other uses.
Synonyms
- fabulous invalid
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Glossary of theatre
Anagrams
- hat tree, hattree, teareth, tethera, theatre, thereat
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French théâtre, from Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (théatron, “a place for viewing”), from ??????? (theáomai, “to see", "to watch", "to observe”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /te??(j)a?t?r/
- Hyphenation: the?a?ter
- Rhymes: -a?t?r
Noun
theater n (plural theaters, diminutive theatertje n)
- theater (US), theatre (Commonwealth): either drama, the art form, or a drama theater (building)
Synonyms
- schouwburg
Derived terms
- danstheater
- theaterkunst
- volkstheater
Descendants
- Afrikaans: teater
- ? Indonesian: teater
Middle English
Alternative forms
- theatre, teatre, theatyr, theatere
Etymology
From Old French theatre, from Latin theatrum, from Ancient Greek ??????? (théatron).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??at?r/, /?t???a?t?r/
Noun
theater
- A theatre open to the sky; an amphitheatre.
- Any stage which plays and performances take place at.
- (rare) A whorehouse.
Descendants
- English: theater, theatre
- Scots: theatre
References
- “th????tre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-19.
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film
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?lm/, [f??m]
- Rhymes: -?lm
- (North East England, Ireland) IPA(key): [?f?lm?], [?f?l?m]
Etymology
From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminj? (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian pl?v? (“membrane, scab”), Russian ?????? (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek ????? (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. Sense of a thin coat of something is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid.
Noun
film (countable and uncountable, plural films)
- A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
- A movie.
- (film, uncountable) Cinema; movies as a group.
- A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
Synonyms
- (motion picture): movie
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Verb
film (third-person singular simple present films, present participle filming, simple past and past participle filmed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
- (transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
Translations
Anagrams
- MILF, milf
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch film, from English film, or borrowed from English film.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?lm/
Noun
film (plural films)
- film
Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French film, from English film.
Noun
film m (indefinite plural filma, definite singular filmi, definite plural filmat)
- film
- movie
Declension
Azerbaijani
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [film]
Noun
film (definite accusative filmi, plural filml?r)
- film, movie
Declension
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?film/
Noun
film m (plural films)
- film (a movie)
- Synonym: pel·lícula
Related terms
- filmar
- fílmic
Further reading
- “film” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Crimean Tatar
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Noun
film
- film (clarification of this definition is needed)
Declension
References
- Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?lm/
Noun
film m inan
- (photography) film
- movie, film, motion picture
Declension
Derived terms
- filmovat
- filma?
Further reading
- film in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- film in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /film/, [?film]
- Rhymes: -ilm
Noun
film c (singular definite filmen, plural indefinite film)
- a movie, a film, motion picture
- film; a thin layer
- plural indefinite of film
Inflection
Derived terms
- filme
- filmning
- filmfotograf
- filmhold
- filmproduktion
- filmskole
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?l?m/, /f?lm/
- Rhymes: -?lm, -?l?m
Noun
film m (plural films, diminutive filmpje n)
- film, movie
Derived terms
- filmproducent
- filmregisseur
- speelfilm
- tekenfilm
- verfilmen
Estonian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
film (genitive filmi, partitive filmi)
- movie
Declension
Derived terms
- filmindus
- filmilint
- värvifilm
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /film/
Noun
film m (plural films)
- movie, film
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Albanian: film
- ? Romanian: film
- ? Turkish: film
Further reading
- “film” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?film]
- Hyphenation: film
- Rhymes: -ilm
Noun
film (plural filmek)
- (photography) film (a medium used to capture images in a camera)
- film, movie, motion picture, picture (a recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion)
- film, cinematic art, cinema, cinematography (the art of making films and movies)
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- film in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Indonesian
Etymology
From earlier pilem, from Dutch film, from English film.
Pronunciation
- (standard) IPA(key): [?f?lm]
- (Betawi) IPA(key): /?f?l(?)m/, /?pel?m/
Noun
film (first-person possessive filmku, second-person possessive filmmu, third-person possessive filmnya)
- film,
- a thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- (photography) a medium used to capture images in a camera.
- a movie, a motion picture, a recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion.
Alternative forms
- filem (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)
Affixed terms
Further reading
- “film” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
Etymology
From English film.
Noun
film m (invariable)
- film, movie
- Synonym: pellicola
Derived terms
See also
- cinema
Further reading
- film in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Noun
film m (plural films)
- (Jersey) movie, film
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmer, definite plural filmene)
- a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
- a film (thin material, layer or coating)
- a film, movie (cinematic production)
Derived terms
Related terms
- filme
Verb
film
- imperative of filme
References
- “film” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmar, definite plural filmane)
- a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
- a film (thin material, layer or coating)
- a film, movie (cinematic production)
Derived terms
References
- “film” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?ilm/
Noun
film m inan (diminutive filmik)
- film, movie, motion picture
- film (medium used to capture images in a camera)
Declension
Derived terms
- (nouns) filmografia, filmowiec
- (adjectives) filmowy, filmograficzny
Further reading
- film in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Noun
film m (plural filmes)
- Superseded spelling of filme.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French film, German Film, from English film.
Noun
film n (plural filme)
- movie, film
Declension
References
- Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From English film, from Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminj? (“thin skin, membrane”), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?filim/
Noun
film m (genitive singular film, plural filmichean)
- film, movie
Mutation
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from English film.
Noun
f?lm m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- film (photography)
- film (motion picture)
Declension
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fi?m/
Noun
film m (genitive singular filmu, nominative plural filmy, genitive plural filmov, declension pattern of dub)
- photographic film
- movie, motion picture
Declension
Derived terms
- filmár
- filmova?
- filmový
- filmovo
- filmík
Further reading
- film in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk
Spanish
Etymology
From English film.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?film/, [?film]
Noun
film m (plural films)
- film, motion picture
Further reading
- “film” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Swedish
Pronunciation
Noun
film c
- film; a thin layer
- film; medium used to capture images in a camera
- a movie
Declension
Related terms
References
- film in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French film, from English film.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /film/
- IPA(key): /filim/ (colloquial)
Noun
film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmler)
- a medium used to capture images in a camera
- a movie
Declension
Uzbek
Etymology
From Russian ????? (fil?m), from English film.
Noun
film (plural filmlar)
- film, movie, motion picture
- Synonyms: kino, kinofilm, kartina
Declension
Related terms
- filmoskop
- filmoteka
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