Etymology

microfilm

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Today it means: A continuous roll of film containing photographs of documents at a greatly reduced size. Full definition →

English film ← Middle English filme ← Old English filmen
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mey-der.?
  2. Ancient Greekμῑκρός (mīkrós)
  3. Ancient Greekμῑκρο- (mīkro-)
  4. Englishmicro-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*pel-
  6. Proto-Germanic*felma-
  7. Proto-Germanic*filmīn-
  8. Old Englishfilmen
  9. Middle Englishfilme
  10. Englishfilm
  11. English todaymicrofilm

From micro- + film.

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