photo

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /fəʊtəʊ/, SAMPA: /f@Ut@U/
• (US) IPA: /foʊɾoʊ/, SAMPA: /foUtoU/

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Etymology

Shortened form of photograph

Noun

photo (plural photos)

1. photograph

Translations

photograph

Arabic: صورة (ar) (Suura) f. Basque: argazki (eu) Bengali: ফটো (bn) (fôţo) Catalan: foto (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 照片 (cmn) (zhàopiàn), 相片 (zh) (xiàngpiàn) Czech: fotka (cs) f. Danish: foto (da), fotografi (da) n., billede (da) n. Dutch: foto (nl) Esperanto: foto (eo) Finnish: valokuva (fi), (informally) foto (fi), kuva (fi) French: photo (fr) f. German: Foto (de) n., Bild (de) n. Greek: φωτογραφία (el) f. Hebrew: תצלום (he) (tatslúm) m., תמונה (he) (tmuná) f. Hindi: फ़ोटो (hi) (foṭo) m. and f., तस्वीर (hi) (tasvīr) f.

Hungarian: fotó (hu), fénykép (hu) Icelandic: mynd (is) f. Italian: fotografia (it) f., foto (it) f. Japanese: 写真 (ja) (しゃしん, shashin) Korean: 사진 (ko) (sajin) (寫真 (ko)) Latvian: fotogrāfija (lv) Lithuanian: nuotrauka (lt) f. Persian: عکس (fa) (aks) Polish: zdjęcie (pl), fotografia (pl) f. Portuguese: foto (pt) f. Romanian: fotografie f., poză f., foto n. Russian: фото (ru) (fóto) n., фотография (ru) (fotográfija) f., снимок (ru) (snímok) m. Spanish: foto (es) f., fotografía (es) f. Turkish: fotoğraf (tr) Urdu: فوٹو (ur) (foṭo) m. and f., تصویر (ur) (tasvīr) f. Volapük: fotografot (vo), (older term, obsolete) fotogafot (vo)

Verb

photo (third-person singular simple present photos, present participle photoing, simple past and past participle photoed)

1. To take a photograph.
   • [1956] 1992 ed., The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter [1]

     What fun to be photoed together,

     What luck for a break so opportune.

     Oh, what a lark

     To be posed in the park

     Underneath the adolescent crescent of the moon.

   • 1998, Hans Schmidt, Maverick Marine [2]

     He even had himself photoed helping to hold one of the fire-hose.

   • 2000, Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet [3]

     Always photoing exits. What are all these ways out but rehearsals for his own?

Translations

to take a photograph

Dutch: fotograferen (nl) Esperanto: foti (eo) Finnish: valokuvata (fi), kuvata (fi)

Hebrew: צילם (he) Volapük: fotografön (vo), (older term, obsolete) fotogafön (vo), (older term) litamagön (vo)

See also

• photo-
• photosensitive
• photosynthesis, photosynthesize
• photogenic
• photocell
• photo finish
• photo opportunity

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Noun

photo f. (plural photos)

1. photo