Is cinema a spanish word?
It translates on this site as "cine" and my prof. introduced me....... well long story he said "cinema" like "cinEma" and got corrected to "cINema" by a native teacher, the dean. Like "cINe" Cínema. But there is no accent right? So is it cinema, cínema, or is there no word for cinema and just say "cine"?
But the course is "El curso de cinema".
Gracias....
3 Answers
Yes. It appears in the DRAE. Both "cine" and "cinema" are shortened versions of the original "cinematógrafo." The word "cinematógrafo" is itself borrowed from the French term "cinématographe," a term derived from Greek roots.
Typically, esdrújulas, or words in which the stress falls on the third from last syllable, always carry an accent mark. The only exception is in words of foreign origin which sometimes retain the stress patterns found in the language of origin. This does not appear to be the case here, however.
This is mere conjecture on my part, but it may be that pronunciation of the word "cine" (i.e. cí•ne) has infiltrated (at least in the dean's mind) the pronunciation of the perhaps less common "cinema."
Yes, some people will pronounce it as "cínema" but it should be "cinema"
CinEma as you wrote it. 
I have never heard anything other than "cine".
