film

• IPA^(key): /fɪlm/

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

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.

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 (Can we date this quote?)

     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) Cinema; 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.

• (motion picture): movie

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) 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.

2. (transitive) To cover or become covered 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.

   • 2012, Nathan Archer, Valhalla

     Her legs folded under her, and her eyes filmed over.

• MILF, milf

From Dutch film.

film (plural films)

1. film

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

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

1. film
2. movie

• IPA^(key): [film]

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmlər)

1. film, movie

Borrowed from English film.

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

film m (plural films)

1. film (a movie)

   Synonym: pel·lícula

• filmar
• fílmic

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

Borrowed from English film.

film

1. film (clarification of this definition is needed)

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

• IPA^(key): /fɪlm/

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film m inan

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

• filmovat
• filmař

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

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

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

• filme
  • filmning
• filmfotograf
• filmhold
• filmproduktion
• filmskole

• IPA^(key): /fɪlm/, /ˈfɪləm/
• Rhymes: -ɪlm, -ɪləm

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film m (plural films, diminutive filmpje n)

1. film, movie

• filmproducent
• filmregisseur
• speelfilm
• tekenfilm
• verfilmen

film (genitive filmi, partitive filmi)

1. movie

• filmindus
• filmilint
• värvifilm

Borrowed from English film.

• IPA^(key): /film/

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film m (plural films)

1. movie, film

• filmage
• filmer
• filmique
• filmographie

• → Albanian: film
• → Romanian: film
• → Turkish: film

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

Borrowed from English film.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈfilm]

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• Hyphenation: film

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)

• filmes
• filmez

• film in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

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

film (plural film-film, first-person possessive filmku, second-person possessive filmmu, third-person possessive filmnya)

1. film (clarification of this definition is needed)

From English film.

film m (invariable)

1. film, movie

   Synonym: pellicola

   Guardi dei film? ― Do you watch movies?

• cinema

• film in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Borrowed from English film.

film m (plural films)

1. (Jersey) movie, film

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)

• filme

film

1. imperative of filme

• “film” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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)

• filmkamera
• filmstjerne
• krigsfilm
• skrekkfilm

• “film” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English film.

• IPA^(key): /fʲilm/

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film m inan

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

• film in Polish dictionaries at PWN

film m (plural filmes)

1. Superseded spelling of filme.

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

film n (plural filme)

1. movie, film

Borrowed from English film.

fȉlm m (Cyrillic spelling фи̏лм)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈfiɫm/

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

1. photographic film
2. movie, motion picture

• filmár
• filmovať
• filmový
• filmovo
• filmík

• film in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

film m (plural films or filmes)

1. Alternative form of filme

• “film” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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film c

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

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

Borrowed from French film, from English film.

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

film (definite accusative filmi, plural filmler)

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