Where does “cinemansion” come from?
cinemansion (English) comes from English mansion, from Middle English mansioun, from Anglo-Norman mansion, from Latin mansiō, from Latin -tiō, from Latin dissertātiō, from Latin dissertus, from Latin disserere — small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble.
cinemansion (English): A large movie theater
Definitions
- A large movie theater
Ancestry of “cinemansion”, step by step
cinemansion traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English mansion
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | mansion | A large house or building, usually built for the... |
| 2 | Middle English | mansioun | A place where one makes their home or dwells; a... |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | mansion | — |
| 4 | Latin | mansiō | An act or instance of staying, remaining; stay, continuance |
| 5 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 6 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 7 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 8 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 9 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 10 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 11 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 12 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
via English cinema
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | cinema | A movie theatre, a movie house; Films... |
| 2 | French | cinéma | cinema; playacting, drama, fuss |
| 3 | French | cinématographe | cinematograph |
| 4 | French | -graphe | -graph; -grapher |
| 5 | Latin | -graphus | graph |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -γράφος | writer, painter |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | γράφω | to scratch, cut into; to draw, sketch, paint; to... |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | grəpʰō | to scratch, cut or carve into |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gerbʰ- | to carve |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ger- | to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind... |