cinema
Portuguese, noun/siˈnẽ.mɐ/
cinema is spelled C-I-N-E-M-A (6 letters) and appears 87 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 1,113th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cinema is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “cinema; movie theater (building where films are shown to an audience)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arte de fazer filmes, conhecida como a sétima arte”.
What does cinema mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecinema; movie theater (building where films are shown to an audience)
- 2
masculinecinema (the art or industry of making films)
- 3
masculinecinema (films from a particular place or of a particular style as a group)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. arte de fazer filmes, conhecida como a sétima arte 2. local onde são exibidos filmes, com tela grande e no escuro
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cinema
- cinemas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cinema?
- Brazil /siˈnẽ.mɐ/
- Portugal /siˈne.mɐ/
- Portugal /si.ˈne.mɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cinema
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cinema in Portuguese?
cinema appears 87 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).