photo English · revision 2657

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=clipping|attested=1860, Queen Victoria's letters}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /ˈfəʊ.təʊ/, US /ˈfoʊ.t̬oʊ/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a colloquial clipping of [[photograph]].^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ 1860, in Queen Victoria's letters.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The verb, “to photograph”, is from 1868, in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's letters,^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989) or by 1865.^(Etymonline) A ''photo finish'', a race so close that only a photograph taken at the line can decide it, is from 1936.^(Etymonline) The ''photo opportunity'', a chance arranged to photograph a notable person or event, is from 1974 and said to be a coinage of the Nixon administration,^(Etymonline) and ''photo op'' is from 1982.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1860 – a photograph.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1868 – verb, to photograph.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1936 – ''photo finish''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1974 – ''photo opportunity''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1982 – ''photo op''.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[photograph]].^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To photograph.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[photo-essay]]

+ * [[photofinisher]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[photog]]

+ * [[photographer]]

+ * [[photograph]]

+ * [[photography]]

+ * [[photo-]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}