cinemaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French cinéma, clipping of cinématographe (term coined by the Lumière brothers in the 1890s), from Ancient Greek κίνημα (kínēma, “movement”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write, record”). Compare German Kino (“cinema”), ultimately from the same Greek source.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈsɪn.ə.mə/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈsɪn.ɪ.mə/, /ˈsɪn.ɪ.mɑː/
• ハイフネーション: ci‧ne‧ma

名詞

cinema (countable and uncountable, plural cinemas)

1. (countable) A movie theatre, a movie house.

   Synonyms: (UK) pictures, (chiefly US) moviehouse, movies, (chiefly US) movie theater, (rare) movie theatre

   The cinema is right across the street from the restaurant.

2. (film, uncountable) Films collectively.

   Despite the critics, he produced excellent cinema.

3. (film, uncountable) The film and movie industry.

   In the long history of Spanish cinema […] .

   • 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

     Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

4. (film, countable, uncountable) The art of making films and movies; cinematography.

   Synonym: seventh art

   Throughout the history of cinema, filmmakers […] .

   • 2005, Tom O'Regan, Australian National Cinema, page 79:

     The French and Italian cinemas can seem to persist autonomously—in the sense of being spaces of separate development and marked difference from Hollywood and other national cinemas.

5. (Internet slang, uncountable) A sophisticated or exemplary film, representative of the art of cinema.

   Synonym: kino

   1. (by extension, humorous) Any media or event that is exemplary.

      That game was absolute cinema.

派生語

関連する語

派生した語

• → Bengali: সিনেমা (śinema)
• → Gujarati: સિનેમા (sinemā)
• → Hindi: सिनेमा (sinemā)
• → Irish: cineama
• → Kannada: ಸಿನಮಾ (sinamā)
• → Lao: ຊິເນມາ (si nē mā)
• → Malayalam: സിനിമ (sinima)
• → Punjabi: ਸਿਨਮਾ (sinmā)
• → Sinhalese: සිනමාහල (sinamāhala)
• → Tamil: சினிமா (ciṉimā)
• → Telugu: సినిమా (sinimā), సైన్మ (sainma), సీన్మ (sīnma) — Telangana
• → Urdu: سِنیما (sinemā)
• → Welsh: sinema
• → Yoruba: sinimá

アナグラム

• Mencia, anemic, came in, iceman

名詞

cīnēma n (genitive cīnēmatis); third declension

1. (New Latin) cinema

語形変化

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).