filma

Forms

filma (third-person singular present filmează, past participle filmat) 1st conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French filmer,^[2][3][4][1] a French verb formed on film with the verb ending -er.^[1] It belongs with the noun film, also borrowed from French.^[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 gives no dated record: its first reference is to the manuscript of the Academy's dictionary.^[3] The DLRLC, published in the 1950s, illustrates it with a sentence of Zaharia Stancu about camera operators filming crowds.^[5]

Semantic evolution

It was first a term of the cinema, “to record scenes on cinema film”, which is how the dictionaries of the 1950s define it.^[5][6] DEX 2009 widens the definition to recording on a magnetic medium as well, so it now covers video.^[2] Its synonym is cinematografia.^[2][3]

Meanings

Verb

1. (transitive) To film: to record successive images on cinema film or on a magnetic or digital medium; to shoot a scene.^[2][3][1]
2. To make a film of a book or story; to adapt it for the screen (ecraniza).^[7]

Related words

• film

Usage notes

A different, capitalised word Filma is recorded in Banat folk tales for an evil fairy who torments souls, a personification of fever.^[8][9] Șăineanu calls its origin unknown, and Tiktin reports Hasdeu's view that it came from Gothic through the Gepids.^[9][8]

References

1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 394
3. ^ a b c d e Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 1, 905
4. ^ Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. filma
5. ^ a b Macrea, Dimitrie; Petrovici, Emil (coord.) (1955–1957), Dicționarul limbii romîne literare contemporane, 4 vols., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. 2, 290
6. ^ Academia Republicii Populare Romîne (1958), Dicționarul limbii romîne moderne, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. s.v. filma
7. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. filma
8. ^ a b Tiktin, Hariton (2000–2005), Rumänisch-deutsches Wörterbuch, 3rd ed., revised by Paul Miron and Elsa Lüder, 3 vols., Cluj-Napoca: Clusium, p. s.v. filma
9. ^ a b Șăineanu, Lazăr (1929), Dicționar universal al limbei române, 6th ed., Craiova: Scrisul Românesc, p. 1, 251