>>21537065The english word cinema is derived from the french cinema which literally just means "movie"
there's no graph.
It is an englishman's right to steal whatever the fuck we want from the french, so we did.
The technology for producing motion picture cameras was patented by Thomas Edison, who didn't even remotely fucking invent, but it allowed him to lock down the industry in the United States. He named the "Motion Picture Camera".
Enter the Jews who formed the first movie production company United Artists, now a division MGM, but at the time it was just Charlie Chaplin and a few of his mates, who, in order to avoid patent infringment stole the french word cinema.
Since Charlie Chaplin was by far the biggest cultural export in the 1920, it was here that Germans got the first real introduction to Cinema. These movies are silent, so American pronunciation is not heard, and a German reading the word Cinema will pronounce it Kinema.
The germans abhore homonyms, thus they needed not just one word but a family of words to mean all the things we just call cinema (the film itself, the industry, the quality, the theater and the building the theater is housed in).
Thus Charlie Chaplins Cinema, a word he probably did not understand except that it was French and got him out of legal trouble, becomes Kinematography.
That word is then rebastardized back into English (because we don't discriminate, we steal from everyone). Cinematography which is to moving pictures what photography is to photographs.
The greeks throughout all of this were fighting each other about who they were going to fight after they were finished fighting each other and literally nobody asked the greeks what we should call stuff.
And there you have the actual history of the word cinema.
