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How to spell cinema

Cinema is spelled C-I-N-E-M-A.

hear itcin·e·ma/'sɪnəmə/nounAcademic

What it means: A place where movies are shown.

In a sentence: We went to the cinema to watch a fun movie.

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: cinematic, cinematography, cinematographer, movie, theater. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Cinema comes from the French word “cinéma,” short for “cinématographe,” which was the name of an early movie projector invented by the Lumière brothers. The root is from Greek “kinein,” meaning “to move,” because films are made from moving images.

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