ταινία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Formation comparable to κειρία (keiría, “band, tapeworm”). According to Beekes, probably from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“stretch”), the same root of τείνω (teínō, “to stretch”), even though the details are rather unclear. The missing link may be a noun like *ταῖνα (*taîna) or *ταινά (*tainá).

Pronunciation

Noun

ταινῐ́ᾱ • (tainíā) f (genitive ταινῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. band, fillet, headband worn in sign of victory
2. breastband worn by young girls
3. ribbon, tape, band
4. strip in fur
5. pennon of a ship
6. strip or tongue of land
7. (in joiner's work) fillet, fascia
8. tapeworm, taenia

   Synonym: κειρία (keiría)

9. kind of long, thin fish

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: ταινία (tainía)
• → Latin: taenia
• → Translingual: Taenia

Further reading

• “ταινία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ταινία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ταινία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía).

Noun

ταινία • (tainía) f (plural ταινίες)

1. film (UK), movie (US)

   Εκείνη η ταινία ακόμα δεν παίζεται στα σινεμά.

   Ekeíni i tainía akóma den paízetai sta sinemá.

   That film/movie is not yet showing in theaters.

2. ribbon, tape, band
3. tape measure
4. streak
5. tapeworm

Declension

Synonyms

• (film): φιλμ n (film)

Related terms

• ταινιογραφία f (tainiografía, “filmοgraphy”)