Comment on The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.

• livus@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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. :)

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