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The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture.
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You think that's bad, Lumiere's father in law wanted him to call the new invention "Domitor" instead of "Cinema".
Or in alternate reallity: "You think that's bad, Lumiere wanted to call the new invention "Cinema" before his father in law reasoned with him to call it "Domitor"."
@srecko "so strange, imagine if we didn't have Domitoriums!"
Idk that sounds kinda badass
Why?
@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. :)