filmatisera

From film +‎ -isera, influenced by dramatisera (“to dramatize”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål filmatisere. Compare English filmize.

• IPA^(key): /fɪlmatɪˈseːra/

filmatisera (present filmatiserar, preterite filmatiserade, supine filmatiserat, imperative filmatisera)

1. to adapt to film (adapt a literary work and make a film based on it)
   • 1993, Sven Edvin Salje, “Vågdalar”, in Brev till Livet‎^[1], Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 9 May 2025, page 184:

     Två av mina romaner filmatiserades under [1950-talet]: Vingslag i natten (1952) och Tarps Elin (1956).

     Two of my novels were adapted to film during the 1950s: Vingslag i natten (1952) and Tarps Elin (1956).

   • 2009, Agneta Rahikainen, editor, Jag är ju utlänning vart jag än kommer‎^[2], Atlantis, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland, archived from the original on 9 May 2025, page 224:

     Före filmen Love hade [romanen] Anna Karenina [redan] filmatiserats åtminstone sju gånger.

     Before the movie Love, the novel Anna Karenina had already been adapted to film at least seven times.

   • 2022, Per-Arne Bodin, “Vladimir i Moskva”, in Signum‎^[3], number 3, archived from the original on 9 May 2025:

     Andrej Kravtjuks film Vikingen [...] var ett försök att filmatisera Nestorskrönikan.

     Andrei Kravchuk's film Viking was an attempt to adapt the Chronicle of Nestor to film.

• filmatisering

• filmatisera in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• filmatisera in Björn Collinder, Nya ordhandboken (1992)