キネマ

Japanese

Etymology

Either a shortening of Japanese キネマトグラフ (kinematogurafu) (itself from English kinematograph),[1] or from English kinema.[2]

Listed in one source as a shortening of English kinematograph directly, suggesting that the shortening happened simultaneously with the borrowing.[3]

First cited to a text from 1910 or 1911.[3]

Doublet of シネマ (shinema).

Pronunciation

Noun

キネマ • (kinema) 

  1. [from around 1910] (rare) cinematograph: a film, a movie
    Synonym: 映画 (eiga)
    • 1931, 宮本百合子, 新しきシベリアを横切る:
      画(が)家(か)も、作(さっ)家(か)も、キネマの製(せい)作(さく)者(もの)も総(そう)動(どう)員(いん)を受(う)けた。
      Gaka mo, sakka mo, kinema no seisakumono mo sōdōin o uketa.
      They mobilized artists, writers, and makers of cinematographs.
  2. [from around 1910] (rare) a movie theater
    Synonym: 映画館 (eigakan)

References
  1. “キネマ”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. “キネマ”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
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