Cinematises

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Turns a novel, play, or other source material into a motion picture by writing and directing it for the screen
2. Makes a film version of a story, book, or event, transferring its content into cinematic form
3. Presents or reworks a narrative for the cinema, shaping its scenes and images for the moving picture medium

Etymology: "Cinematises" is the third-person singular present form of "cinematise", a verb meaning to adapt a work, such as a novel or play, for film. The base verb is built from "cinema", which itself comes from the French "cinématographe", the name given in the 1890s to the Lumière brothers' film projector. "Cinema" was clipped from that longer word, and the verb was formed by adding the suffix "-ise" to the noun, a common pattern for turning nouns into verbs meaning to make or treat something in a certain way.

Synonyms: film, adapt