Where does “cinematic” come from?
Cinematic comes from French cinématique, from English -ics and ic, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ḱey-.
cinematic (English): Of or relating to the cinema; Resembling a...
Definitions
- Of or relating to the cinema; Resembling a...
Ancestry of “cinematic”, step by step
cinematic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
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... |
via French cinématique
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | cinématique | kinematics; kinematic |
| 2 | French | -ique | Used to form adjectives from nouns: -ic, -ical,... |
| 3 | Middle French | -ique | ic |
| 4 | Old French | -ique | -ic |
| 5 | Latin | -icus | belonging to; derived from; of or pertaining to;... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *-ikos | forms adjectives with the sense of 'of or pertaining to' |