cinématographe

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + -graphe; coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.ne.ma.tɔ.ɡʁaf/

Noun

cinématographe m (plural cinématographes)

1. cinematograph

Descendants

• → Asturian: cinematógrafu
• → Basque: zinematografo
• → Belarusian: кинематограф (kinjematóhraf)
• → Catalan: cinematògraf
• → Czech: kinematograf
• → Dutch: cinematograaf
• → English: cinematograph
• → Finnish: kinematografi
• → Georgian: სინემატოგრაფი (sinemaṭograpi)
• → German: Kinematograph
  • ⇒ German: Kino (see there for further descendants)
• → Hebrew: סינמטוגרף
• → Hungarian: kinematográf
• → Indonesian: sinematograf
• → Italian: cinematografo
• → Japanese: シネマトグラフ (shinematogurafu)
• → Korean: 시네마토그래프 (sinematogeuraepeu)
• → Malay: sinematograf
• → Norwegian: kinematograf
• → Persian: سینماتوگراف
• → Polish: kinematograf
• → Portuguese: cinematógrafo
• → Romanian: cinematografie
• → Russian: кинематограф (kinematograf)
  • ⇒ Russian: кино́ (kinó) (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: кинематограф
  • Latin script: kinematograf
• → Spanish: cinematógrafo
• → Swedish: kinematograf
• → Turkish: sinematograf
• → Ukrainian: кінемато́граф (kinematóhraf)

Further reading

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