▲ 84 ▼ The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture. (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by Maimas2@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world 46 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Why? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] livus@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago @Sigmatics a sort of squashed version from the Latin, "dominator". He thought it would dominate. They ended up going with the Greek word "kínēma" which means movement, hence movie cameras were "cinematographs" - movement writers. But they did call their first camera model Domitor. :) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] livus@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago @Sigmatics a sort of squashed version from the Latin, "dominator". He thought it would dominate. They ended up going with the Greek word "kínēma" which means movement, hence movie cameras were "cinematographs" - movement writers. But they did call their first camera model Domitor. :) permalink fedilink source parent