Translation
photo, photograph
Word origin
An international clipping of fotografio, coined from Greek phos, photos (light) and graphein (to draw or write): drawing with light.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- phos, photos
- English cognates
- photograph, photon
Examples
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He showed me a photo of his family.
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She took many photos during the trip.
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The old photo hangs on the wall.
The full word is fotografaĵo, but like everyone else Esperantists clipped it, and is now the everyday form with foti as its verb. Note the idiom: you a photo in Esperanto, you do not "take" one, so "I took a photo of the house" is fotis or . A is any picture; a is specifically the camera-made kind.
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