film

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪlm/
  • Rhymes: -ɪlm
• (North East England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪləm/

Etymology

From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminją (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pélno-mo (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian plėvē (“membrane, scab”), Russian плева́ (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. Sense of a thin coat of something is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid.

Noun

film (countable and uncountable, plural films)

1. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.

   a clear plastic film for wrapping food

   • Alexander Pope

     He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.

2. (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
3. A movie.
4. (film, uncountable) Film or movies as a group.
5. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Shakespeare

     Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film.

Verb

film (third-person singular simple present films, present participle filming, simple past and past participle filmed)

1. To record a motion picture on photographic film.

   A Hollywood studio was filming on-location in NYC.

2. To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, scene 4, lines 146:

     It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

Descendants

• Arabic: فِلْم‎ (film)
• Japanese: フィルム (firumu)
• Lao: ຟີມ (fīm)
• Thai: ฟิล์ม (fiim)

Anagrams

• MILF, milf

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [film]

Noun

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmlər)

1. film (clarification of this definition is needed)

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfilm/

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. film (a movie)

   Synonym: pel·lícula

Further reading

• “film” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

film

1. film (clarification of this definition is needed)

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɪlm/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

film m

1. (photography) film
2. movie, film, motion picture

Further reading

• film in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• film in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/, [ˈfilm]
• Rhymes: -ilm

Noun

film c (singular definite filmen, plural indefinite film)

1. a movie, a film, motion picture
2. film; a thin layer
3. plural indefinite of film

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlm

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

film m (plural films, diminutive filmpje n)

1. film, movie

Noun

film (genitive filmi, partitive filmi)

1. movie

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. movie, film

Further reading

• “film” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfilm]

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: film

Noun

film (plural filmek)

1. (photography) film (a medium used to capture images in a camera)
2. film, movie, motion picture, picture (a recorded sequence of images displayed on a screen at a rate sufficiently fast to create the appearance of motion)
3. film, cinematic art, cinema, cinematography (the art of making films and movies)

References

Further reading

• film in A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára

Pronunciation

• (Betawi) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪl(ə)m/, /ˈpeləm/

Noun

film

1. film (clarification of this definition is needed)

Noun

film m (invariable)

1. film, movie

   Synonym: pellicola

   Guardi dei film? ― Do you watch movies?

See also

• cinema

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

film m (plural films)

1. (Jersey) movie, film

Noun

film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmer, definite plural filmene)

1. a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
2. a film (thin material, layer or coating)
3. a film, movie (cinematic production)

Verb

film

1. imperative of filme

References

• “film” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Noun

film m (definite singular filmen, indefinite plural filmar, definite plural filmane)

1. a film (for taking photographs in a camera)
2. a film (thin material, layer or coating)
3. a film, movie (cinematic production)

References

• “film” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʲilm/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

film m inan

1. film, movie, motion picture
2. film (medium used to capture images in a camera)

Further reading

• film in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Etymology

Borrowed from French film.

Noun

film n (plural filme)

1. movie, film

Etymology

Borrowed from English film.

Noun

fȉlm m (Cyrillic spelling фи̏лм)

1. film (photography)
2. film (motion picture)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiɫm/

Noun

film m (genitive singular filmu, nominative plural filmy, genitive plural filmov, declension pattern of dub)

1. photographic film
2. movie, motion picture

Further reading

• film in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Noun

film m (plural films or filmes)

1. Alternative form of filme

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

Noun

film c

1. film; a thin layer
2. film; medium used to capture images in a camera
3. a movie

References

• film in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

Etymology

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /film/
• IPA^(key): /filim/ (colloquial)

Noun

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmler)

1. a medium used to capture images in a camera
2. a movie