cine

/ˈθine/ · A2 · noun · m

film

🎬 cine = cinema with the ending cut off; same Greek root kinema, movement

Spanish clipped cinematógrafo down to cine, just as English clipped it to cinema. Both go back to Greek kinema, movement, so cine is literally the moving-pictures place. It is masculine: el cine.

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