Translation
film, movie
Word origin
Borrowed from English film, originally a Germanic word for a thin skin or membrane, which photography repurposed for the coated strip and cinema then took over entirely.
- Origin
- English
- Root
- film
- English cognates
- film
Examples
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We watched a film yesterday evening.
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What is your favourite film?
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The film was very long.
You or a film; the cinema itself is , a place-for-cinema built with --. The verb filmi means to film something, so filmis needs no extra machinery. Stress on the first syllable, FIL-mo.
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