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The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture. (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

@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. :)