filmare

Forms

filmare f (plural filmări)^[1]

Etymology

It is the verbal noun of filma (“to film”), formed from Romanian filma + -re.^[1][2][3][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

MDA2 takes its first record from the manuscript of the Academy dictionary, without a date.^[3] DLRLC records it in the 1950s, with the sense “filming” and the synonym cinematografiere.^[5][6]

Semantic evolution

The word names the act of filming and, later, its result, a filmed recording.^[2] Film technique gave it fixed phrases: filmări combinate, special-effects shooting with particular cameras and processing, and filmare inversă, reversed filming, where the events of a sequence run backwards.^[3][2]

Timeline

• 1955–1957 – in DLRLC, as “the act of filming”.^[5]
• 1958 – in DLRM.^[6]

Meanings

Noun

1. filming, shooting: the act of recording moving images, and its result.^[2][3]

Related words

• filma
• film
• cinematografiere

Usage notes

The plural is filmări.^[2] Fixed phrases include filmări combinate “special-effects filming” and filmare inversă “reversed filming”.^[2][3]

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f 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. filmare
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. ^ a b Academia Republicii Populare Romîne (1958), Dicționarul limbii romîne moderne, București: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, p. s.v. filmare