selfie
English
Etymology
From self + -ie. Attested since 2002, originally Australian English.
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Pronunciation
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Audio (UK): (file)
Noun
selfie (plural selfies)
- (informal, mobile telephony) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.
- 2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches" [1], ABC Online Forum selfie photo:
- 2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, "bmcguirk's photos." [2], Flickr:
- Pre. Nice rooftop selfie. […] No Hair. Another nice rooftop selfie.
- 2005, Jim Krause, Photo Idea Index, HOW Books (2005), →ISBN, page 148:
- That's not to imply that it's "wrong" for your arm or hand to show up in a selfie.
- 2012 December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A Selfie” [3], the picture show, National Public Radio
- 2013 December 13, Roberto Schmidt (guest), Brooke Gladstone (interviewer and editor), “The Photographer Behind ‘Selfie-Gate’”, On the Media, National Public Radio:
- Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them.
- 2017 Lord Stag, "Say Cheese", Lily's Driftwood Bay
- I shall take this photograph myself. This must be what they call a selfie.
Usage notes
Usage is very varied, including photos of oneself that are not taken by oneself (not self-portraits), as in “Could you take a selfie of me?” (compare autobiography, which may be written by a ghostwriter), or not only of oneself, as in “This is a selfie of me and my sister.” Many terms for recently popular photo genres have been coined by analogy by suffixing -ie, as in shelfie, or by blending, as in nelfie.[1] A self-portrait of multiple people is sometimes called an ussie, groupie, or selvesie.
Hypernyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Arabic: سِلْفِي (silfī)
- → Gulf Arabic: سلفي (silfi, salfi)
- → French: selfie
- → Japanese: セルフィー (serufi)
- → Hebrew: סֶלְפִי (sélfi)
- → Persian: سلفی (selfi)
Translations
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Verb
selfie (third-person singular simple present selfies, present participle selfying, simple past and past participle selfied)
- (intransitive, informal, mobile telephony) to take a selfie
Translations
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References
- ^ What Makes a Selfie a Selfie?, Gretchen McCulloch, Slate, April 1 2014
Further reading
Selfie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Category:Selfies on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Noun
selfie
Declension
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
selfie m (plural selfies, diminutive selfietje n)
Derived terms
Finnish
Etymology
Noun
selfie
Declension
Inflection of selfie (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | selfie | selfiet | |
genitive | selfien | selfieiden selfieitten | |
partitive | selfietä | selfieitä | |
illative | selfieen | selfieihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | selfie | selfiet | |
accusative | nom. | selfie | selfiet |
gen. | selfien | ||
genitive | selfien | selfieiden selfieitten | |
partitive | selfietä | selfieitä | |
inessive | selfiessä | selfieissä | |
elative | selfiestä | selfieistä | |
illative | selfieen | selfieihin | |
adessive | selfiellä | selfieillä | |
ablative | selfieltä | selfieiltä | |
allative | selfielle | selfieille | |
essive | selfienä | selfieinä | |
translative | selfieksi | selfieiksi | |
abessive | selfiettä | selfieittä | |
instructive | — | selfiein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
See also
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
selfie m or f (plural selfies)
Synonyms
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
selfie n (indeclinable)
- (informal, mobile telephony) selfie
- Synonym: samojebka
Further reading
Portuguese
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English selfie.
Pronunciation
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Noun
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- selfie (photographic self-portrait)
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] English
Noun
selfie m or f (plural selfies)
Synonyms
- English terms suffixed with -ie (diminutive noun)
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English informal terms
- en:Mobile phones
- English verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- en:Photography
- Danish terms borrowed from English
- Danish terms derived from English
- Danish lemmas
- Danish nouns
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- nl:Mobile phones
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish valtio-type nominals
- fi:Photography
- French terms borrowed from English
- French terms derived from English
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French nouns with multiple genders
- Polish terms borrowed from English
- Polish terms derived from English
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish indeclinable nouns
- Polish neuter nouns
- Polish informal terms
- pl:Mobile phones
- Portuguese terms derived from English
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Spanish terms derived from English
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Spanish nouns with multiple genders
- es:Photography