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kinema
Greek · ancient
"movement"
movement, the root behind moving pictures
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cinematographe
French · 1890s
"a motion-picture projector"
coined by the Lumiere brothers for their motion-picture projector
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cinema
English · 1900s
"motion pictures, or a movie theater"
shortened and settled as the word for the movies
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