película
Appearance
See also: pel·lícula
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin pellicula, from pellis (“skin”). Doublet of pelica.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]película f (plural películas)
Further reading
[edit]- “película”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “película”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin pellicula, from pellis (“skin”). Compare the inherited doublet pelleja. See also English pellicle, pellicule.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]película f (plural películas)
- film (layer)
- movie (US, Canada), film
- 2015 July 5, Tommaso Koch, “Cómo sobrevivir a una noche entre zombis”, in El País[1], archived from the original on 31 October 2020:
- Una confirmación más del tirón que tienen los zombis en la cultura popular: Resident Evil, The Walking Dead o Guerra Mundial Z son ejemplos claros de cómo estos monstruos enamoran en series, cómics, películas o videojuegos.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2015 August 11, Hope King, “Verizon quiere hacer que el internet sea 1.000 veces más rápido”, in CNN en Español[2]:
- Una película de dos horas en alta definición tardaría 8 segundos en descargarse, 100 estudiantes podrían descargar un libro de texto en dos segundos simultáneamente, y subir 1.000 fotos también tomaría alrededor de dos segundos, dice Verizon.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- story (invented story, especially one as an excuse)
- Synonym: cuento
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Chavacano: pelicula
- → Basque: pelikula
- → Cebuano: pelikula
- → Hiligaynon: pelikula
- → Ilocano: pelikula
- → Tagalog: pelikula
Further reading
[edit]- “película”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Latin
- Portuguese learned borrowings from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
- Portuguese doublets
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
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- Portuguese terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ikulɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ikulɐ/4 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from Latin
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
- Spanish doublets
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ikula
- Rhymes:Spanish/ikula/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish terms with quotations
- es:Cinematography
- es:Film