home cinema

English

Noun

home cinema (plural home cinemas)

1. (UK) A system for showing cinema-quality films at home; usually comprising high-definition television and surround sound.
2. (rare, by extension) A dedicated room for such a system.

Synonyms

• home theater (US)

Translations

theatre-quality movie system at home

• Arabic: سِينِمَا مَنْزَلِيَّة f (sīnimā manzaliyya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 家庭影院 (jiātíng yǐngyuàn), 家庭劇院／家庭剧院 (jiātíng jùyuàn)

• Czech: domácí kino n
• Dutch: thuisbioscoop (nl) m
• Finnish: kotiteatteri
• French: home cinema (fr) m, cinéma à domicile (fr) m, cinéma chez soi m, cinédom (fr) m, cinéma maison (fr) m (Canada)
• German: Heimkino (de) n
• Hungarian: házi mozi (hu)
• Italian: home theater m, home theatre (it) m, home cinema (it) m
• Japanese: ホームシアター (ja) (hōmushiatā), ホームシネマ (hōmushinema)
• Portuguese: home cinema m, home theater (pt) m
• Russian: дома́шний кинотеа́тр m (domášnij kinoteátr)
• Slovak: domáce kino n
• Spanish: cine en casa m, cine hogareño
• Swedish: hemmabio c

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English home cinema.

Noun

home cinema m (plural home cinemas)

1. home cinema (theatre-quality film system at home)

   Synonym: home theater

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English home cinema.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˌxom θiˈnema/ [ˌxõm θiˈne.ma]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˌxom siˈnema/ [ˌxõm siˈne.ma]

Noun

home cinema m (plural home cinemas)

1. home cinema (system)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.