kinowy

Kinowy is a Polish adjective meaning relating to cinema or to the cinema as an art form and industry. It is used to describe things associated with film, such as cinema techniques, cinematic language, or film criticism, and can modify nouns like film, style, or equipment. In practice, kinowy signals a focus on theatrical or cinematic contexts rather than television or video.

The word is formed from the noun kino, meaning cinema, with the adjectival suffix -owy. The noun kino is a loanword used in Polish since the early 20th century and derives from terms in Western European languages for cinema, ultimately tracing back to Greek roots connected with movement and motion.

In usage, kinowy appears in phrases such as krytyka kinowa (film criticism), język kinowy (cinematic language), techniki kinowe (cinematic techniques), or format kinowy (theatrical/cinema format). It functions as a flexible descriptor across journalism, film studies, and industry discourse, helping to distinguish cinema-related topics from those connected to other media.