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+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=clipping|attested=1895|origins=grc φῶς, grc γράφω}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈfoː.toː/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''foto''' ''f'' (plural foto's, diminutive fotootje n)^(Wiktionary)

+ Until the 20th-century spelling reforms it was written ''photo''.^(EWN)^(WNT)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a shortening of the older [[fotografie|alt=photographie]] “photograph”, [[bor|fr|photographie]].^(EWN)^(Wiktionary) The French word first meant the making of a picture by light (1834) and then the picture itself (1854); it is a scientific coinage from [[grc|φῶς|tr=phôs|t=light]], genitive [[m|grc|φωτός|tr=phōtós]], and the stem of [[m|grc|γράφω|tr=gráphō|t=to scratch, write, draw]].^(EWN) The same shortening is found in English (1860), French (1864) and German, but only in Dutch and German did the short form become the only usual one, the EWN notes.^(EWN)

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+ Van Veen and Van der Sijs, De Vries, and De Vries and De Tollenaere instead derive the Dutch word from [[en|photo]], recorded from 1870, and Van der Sijs's dictionaries of first dates and loanwords also name English.^(Van Veen & Van der Sijs 1997)^(De Vries 1971)^(De Vries & De Tollenaere 2004|129)^(Van der Sijs 2001)^(Van der Sijs 2005)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first records are ''de kleine nam de photo uit B.'s handen'' “the little one took the photo from B.'s hands” (1895) and ''een photo van de omgeving'' “a photo of the surroundings” (1898).^(EWN)^(Van der Sijs 2001) The long form ''photographie'' had been used for such a picture from 1855.^(EWN)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal of 1922 defines ''photo'' as a shortening of ''photographie'', especially for the picture made by photography, and notes that it had been usual in England since 1870.^(WNT) Today it means both the photograph taken and a print of it.^(Van Dale 2014)^(WikiWoordenboek) Compounds such as ''fotoalbum'', ''fotomodel'' and ''fototoestel'' follow.^(WNT)

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+ The Dutch word was borrowed into Indonesian, Madurese, Menadonese, Minangkabau (''poto''), Sranan Tongo (''fowtow''), Sarnami and Surinamese Javanese.^(Van der Sijs 2010)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1834 – French ''photographie'' is coined for making a picture with light.^(EWN)

+ * 1855 – Dutch ''photographie'' is used for a photograph.^(EWN)

+ * 1870 – English ''photo'' is in common use.^(De Vries 1971)^(WNT)

+ * 1895 – Dutch ''photo'' is first recorded.^(EWN)

+ * 1922 – The Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal gives the plural ''photo's''.^(WNT)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|photograph]], a picture taken with a camera: ''Mag ik een foto van jullie maken?''^(Van Dale 2014)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|print]] of a photograph.^(Van Dale 2014)^(WikiWoordenboek)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[fotoalbum]]

+ * [[fototoestel]]

+ * [[fotolijst]]

+ * [[fotomodel]]

+ * [[fotoreportage]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[fotografie]]

+ * [[fotograaf]]

+ * [[fotograferen]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}