Where does “metacinematically” come from?
metacinematically (English) comes from English metacinematic, from English cinematic, from English cinema, from French cinéma, from French cinématographe, from French -graphe, from Latin -graphus, from Ancient Greek -γράφος — to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind...
metacinematically (English): In a metacinematic fashion
Definitions
- In a metacinematic fashion
Ancestry of “metacinematically”, step by step
metacinematically traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English metacinematic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | metacinematic | Relating to metacinema |
| 2 | English | cinematic | Of or relating to the cinema; Resembling a... |
| 3 | English | cinema | A movie theatre, a movie house; Films... |
| 4 | French | cinéma | cinema; playacting, drama, fuss |
| 5 | French | cinématographe | cinematograph |
| 6 | French | -graphe | -graph; -grapher |
| 7 | Latin | -graphus | graph |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | -γράφος | writer, painter |
| 9 | Ancient Greek | γράφω | to scratch, cut into; to draw, sketch, paint; to... |
| 10 | Proto-Hellenic | grəpʰō | to scratch, cut or carve into |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | gerbʰ- | to carve |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | ger- | to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind... |
via English ally
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | ally | To unite, or form a connection between, as... |
| 2 | Middle English | allie | The state of having marital or family relations... |
| 3 | Middle English | allien | To ally; to make a pact or confederacy; To marry... |
| 4 | Old French | alier | to unite; to join together |
| 5 | Latin | alligō | to bind to, up or around something, tie, fetter, fasten; bandage |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |