Where does “filmic” come from?
Filmic comes from English film plus the French suffix -ique, derived from Latin -icus and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European -kos, an adjectival suffix.
filmic (English): Of or relating to movies; cinematic
Definitions
- Of or relating to movies; cinematic
Ancestry of “filmic”, step by step
filmic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French filmique
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | filmique | film / movie; filmic, cinematic |
| 2 | French | film | movie, film |
| 3 | English | Film | A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity |
| 4 | Russian | фильм | film, movie |
| 5 | English | film | A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a... |
| 6 | Middle English | filme | film, membrane |
| 7 | Old English | filmen | membrane; caul; foreskin |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | *filmīn- | — |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | *filmīn- | — |
via Catalan film
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Catalan | film | film a movie |