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| This is a type of film/movie but I can't find a translation of it anywhere.I'd be grateful for any suggestions. Also,in one lesson,(sorry -can't remember which) they used "ορθό" for "correct". Isn't "σωστό" much more common? Or is it a Cypriot thing? |
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'Σωστό' is indeed more common in every day spoken language. 'Oρθό' is more archaic, and therefore more formal, and you will find it more frequently in written language. Σινεφίλ is the fan/devotee of cinema: It is the Greek transliteration of the French word: cinéphile (also found in English as cinephile) Σινε (from cinema), and φιλ from 'φιλώ' which in ancient Greek it means 'to love' What's funny here is that the word cinema is short for cinematograph, which is the composite Greek word: Κινηματογράφος. Κίνημα=movement γράφω=to write. |
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cinephile comes from Cinematographie and philos (he who love the movies in other words; here's a definition http://www.bartleby.com/61/89/C0358900.html). However it has come to mean hmmm sophisticated films of the non-mainstream kind so to speak, at least in Greek. Ορθό the first component of words such as orthography (correct, proper writing, orthodoxy (the right dogma, the right belief) etc  |
