A German and Russian word for 'cinema' or 'movie theater,' also used in English film theory to describe cinematography.
From Greek 'kinema' (movement), which also gave us 'cinema.' German and Russian adopted 'Kino/кино' from French cinema, and English adopted it back as a film theory term in the 20th century.
The word 'kino' circled the world through European languages—Greek to French to German/Russian to English—showing how international film culture spread through vocabulary as much as through actual movies.
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