Where does “cinemateatro” come from?
cinemateatro (Italian) comes from Italian cinema, from French cinéma, from French cinématographe, from French -graphe, from Latin -graphus, from Ancient Greek -γράφος, from Ancient Greek γράφω, from Proto-Hellenic grəpʰō — to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind...
cinemateatro (Italian): cinema (place), movie theater
Definitions
- cinema (place), movie theater
Ancestry of “cinemateatro”, step by step
cinemateatro traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Italian cinema
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | cinema | cinema; cinema, movie theater, film theatre |
| 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 Italian teatro
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | teatro | theatre, theater; movie theater, cinema; drama |
| 2 | Latin | theātrum | A theatre or theater, playhouse; stage |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | θέατρον | theatre, gathering place; play, spectacle |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -τρον | Forms instrument nouns |
| 5 | Proto-Hellenic | -tron | Forms instrument nouns from verb stems |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -trom | Forms nouns denoting a tool or instrument |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tḗr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |