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EvgenFirst
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Funny word for cinema) Greek origin or just a coincedence?
February 4, 2015
Hedebygade
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Danish or swedish in origin but created by combining greek words. Bio=living. Graf= writing or depiction.
February 28, 2015
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Like "bioscoop" in Dutch, from Greek bios "life" and skopein "look at."
May 18, 2018
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Danish is wonderful and I love Greek words in any language. It makes learning a lot easier. But in Greek we say κινηματογράφος. That would be "kinematograf." --> cinema, kino in other languages. Biograf reminds me of βιογράφος, i.e. a biographer. Still, a beautiful word. Why not.
January 5, 2017
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That was really confusing. In Hebrew that word means ‘biographer’.
March 20, 2015
