Cinematised

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Turned into a motion picture, such as a novel or play that has been adapted for the cinema screen
2. Converted into a film so that a story or text is presented through moving images on screen
3. Adapted for the cinema by filming or reworking an original source into a feature or movie

Etymology: "Cinematised" is the past tense and past participle of "cinematise", a verb built on "cinema" with the suffix "-ise" (or "-ize" in American spelling), meaning to turn something into a film. The base word goes back to the French "cinématographe", the name the Lumière brothers gave their film camera and projector in 1895, which was shortened to "cinéma" in French and reached English as "cinema" in the early twentieth century. The verb itself is a straightforward formation: a noun given a verbal ending so that it can describe the act of putting a story or book on screen.

Synonyms: filmed, adapted for screen