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From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Middle Dutch velm, vilm (“fleece, film, membrane”), Old High German felm (“peel, skin, wrap”), Old English *felma (in ǣġerfelma (“egg membrane”)). Related also to 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.

film (countable and uncountable, plural films)

a roll of film

  1. A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
    a clear plastic film for wrapping food
    • 1712 (date written), Alexander Pope, “Messiah. A Sacred Eclogue, in Imitation of Virgil’s Pollio.”, in The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. […], volume I, London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton, H. Lintot, J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, and S. Draper, published 1751, →OCLC, page 40, lines 39–40:
      He from thick films ſhall purge the viſual ray, / And on the ſightleſs eye-ball pour the day: […]
  2. (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
  3. (uncountable) A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.
    • 2014 March 3, Zoe Alderton, “‘Snapewives’ and ‘Snapeism’: A Fiction-Based Religion within the Harry Potter Fandom”, in Religions‎[3], volume 5, number 1, MDPI, →DOI, pages 219–257:
      Despite personal schisms and differences in spiritual experience, there is a very coherent theology of Snape shared between the wives. To examine this manifestation of religious fandom, I will first discuss the canon scepticism and anti-Rowling sentiment that helps to contextualise the wider belief in Snape as a character who extends beyond book and film.
  4. (countable) The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.
  5. A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.

thin layer

photographic film

motion picture — see movie

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

  1. (ambitransitive) To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
    A Hollywood studio was filming on location in NYC.
    I tried to film the UFO as it passed overhead.
    • 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, pages 49–50:
      It was truly one of the most horrific filming experiences of my career there, contrasting neatly with some of the best of my career - filming in various off-limits storerooms at LTM's Acton Depot.
  2. (ambitransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
  3. (transitive) To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.

to record a motion picture

From Dutch film, from English film, or borrowed from English film.

film (plural films)

  1. film

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

film m (plural filma, definite filmi, definite plural filmat)

  1. film
  2. movie

Ultimately from English film.

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmlər)

  1. film, movie
    Synonym: kino
    sənədli film ― documentary film
    bədii film ― feature film
    cizgi film ― animated cartoon
    film çəkmək ― to shoot a movie
    film çəkilişi ― film set, movie-making
    film nümayişi ― film screening

Borrowed from English film.

film m (plural films)

  1. film (a movie)
    Synonym: pel·lícula

Borrowed from English film.

film

  1. film (clarification of this definition is needed)

Borrowed from English film.[1]

film m inan

  1. (photography) film
  2. movie, film, motion picture
  1. ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015), “film”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN

Borrowed from English film.

film c (singular definite filmen, plural indefinite **film)

  1. a movie, a film, motion picture
  2. film; a thin layer
  3. (sports, cant) filming, acting

Borrowed from English film.

film m (plural films, diminutive filmpje n)

  1. a film, thin layer or membrane; especially the physical medium film
  2. a film production, movie
  3. (uncountable) the movie sector, cinema

German Film.

film (genitive filmi, partitive filmi)

  1. film (motion picture)
  2. photographic film
Declension of film (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
singular plural
nominative film filmid
accusative nom.
gen. filmi
genitive filmide
partitive filmi filmefilmisid
illative filmifilmisse filmidessefilmesse
inessive filmis filmidesfilmes
elative filmist filmidestfilmest
allative filmile filmidelefilmele
adessive filmil filmidelfilmel
ablative filmilt filmideltfilmelt
translative filmiks filmideksfilmeks
terminative filmini filmideni
essive filmina filmidena
abessive filmita filmideta
comitative filmiga filmidega

Borrowed from English film.

film m (plural films)

  1. movie, film

film

  1. singular imperative of filmen

Unadapted borrowing from English film.[1]

film (countable and uncountable, 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)
  1. ^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN

Borrowed from Dutch film.

film (plural **film-film)

  1. film (a thin layer of some substance)
  2. film (a medium used to capture images in a camera)
  3. film (a movie or motion picture)

Unadapted borrowing from English film.

film m (invariable)

  1. film, movie
    Synonym: pellicola
    Guardi dei film? ― Do you watch movies?

Borrowed from Dutch film.

film

  1. film

Borrowed from Polish film.

film m inan (related adjective filmòwi)

  1. movie, film, motion picture
    • 2022, Karolëna Serkòwskô-Secechòwskô, “Kaszëbsczi filmówcë”, in Pomerania‎[5], number 12, Gdańsk: Zrzeszenie Kaszubsko-Pomorskie:
      Czej jô ò tim ùczuł, mësla ò stwòrzenim taczégò filmù zaczãła w głowie dozdrzelewac.
      When I heard about it, the idea of creating such a film began to grow in my mind.

From Russian фильм (filʹm), English film.

film

  1. movie, film
Declension of film (type 1a/tila, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative film filmad
genitive filman filmoiden
partitive filmad filmoid
essive filman filmoin
instructive — filmoin
inessive filmas filmoiš
elative filmaspiä filmoišpiä
illative filmah filmoihe
adessive filmal filmoil
ablative filmalpiä filmoilpiä
allative filmale filmoile
abessive filmata filmoita
prolative filmači filmoiči
translative filmaks filmoikš
additive filmahpiä filmoihepiä
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)

Borrowed from English film.

film

  1. film, movie (motion picture)

Borrowed from English film.

film m (plural films)

  1. (Jersey) movie, film

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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)

film

  1. imperative of filme

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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)

Borrowed from English film.[1][2][3] First attested in the 19th century.[4][5]

film m inan (diminutive filmik, related adjective filmowy)

  1. film, movie, motion picture (series of pictures creating the illusion of motion)
  2. film (art of creating such a series of pictures)
    Synonyms: dziesiąta muza, kino
  3. film (material on which such a series of pictures are recorded)
  4. (photography) film, photographic film
    Synonyms: błona, klisza, taśma filmowa
  5. (engineering, sciences) film (thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity)

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), film is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 7 times in scientific texts, 44 times in news, 31 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 15 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 103 times, making it the 602nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[6]

  1. ^ Dubisz, Stanisław, editor (2003), “film”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal Dictionary of the Polish Language]‎[1] (in Polish), volumes 1–4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, →ISBN, →OCLC
  2. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “film”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  3. ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “film”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
  4. ^ J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “film”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 742
  5. ^ film in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
  6. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “film”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎[2] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 117

Unadapted borrowing from English film.

film m (plural filmes)

  1. (dated or rare) alternative form of filme

Borrowed from French film or German Film, from English film.

film n (plural filme)

  1. movie, film

From English film, from Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-Germanic *filminją (“thin skin, membrane”), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”).

film m (genitive singular **film, plural filmichean)

  1. film, movie

Mutation of film

radical lenition
film fhilm

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Borrowed from English film.

fȉlm m inan (Cyrillic spelling фи̏лм)

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

Borrowed from German Film.

film m inan

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

Borrowed from English film.[1]

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

  1. photographic film
  2. movie, motion picture
  1. ^ Králik, Ľubor (2016), “film”, in Stručný etymologický slovník slovenčiny [Concise Etymological Dictionary of Slovak] (in Slovak), Bratislava: VEDA; JÚĽŠ SAV, →ISBN

Borrowed from English film.

film m (plural films)

  1. alternative spelling of filme (film, motion picture)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

film c

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

Borrowed from French film, ultimately from English film.

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmler)

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

Borrowed from Russian фильм (filʹm), from English film.

film (plural filmlar)

  1. film, movie, motion picture
    Synonyms: kino, kinofilm, kartina

Borrowed from English film

film c (plural films, diminutive filmje)

  1. film, movie, motion picture