moviemaker

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English movie

Proto-Germanic *makaz

Proto-West Germanic *mak

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-West Germanic *-ōn

Proto-West Germanic *makōn?

Old English macian

Middle English maken

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

Middle English maker

English maker

English moviemaker

From movie + maker.

Noun

moviemaker (plural moviemakers)

1. A person who makes movies as a profession; a cinematographer.
   • 2007 May 6, Charles Mcgrath, “A Prince of Pulp, Legit at Last”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Part of why Mr. Dick’s work appeals so much to moviemakers is his pulpish sensibility.

   • 2010, Maaret Koskinen, Ingmar Bergman's The Silence, →ISBN:

     The outrage that greeted The Silence—howls of bishops, scissorings of censors, even feces-smeared toilet paper sent to the director—denoted public horror at a morally serious moviemaker surrendering (it seemed) […]

Translations

a person who makes movies as a profession — see filmmaker