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@Sigmatics a sort of squashed version from the Latin, “dominator”. He thought it would dominate.

They ended up going with the Greek word “kínēma” which means movement, hence movie cameras were “cinematographs” - movement writers.

But they did call their first camera model Domitor. :)

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