pic English · revision 6857

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /pɪk/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a colloquial shortening of [[picture]].^(Etymonline)^(MWU 2024)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ A picture, a photograph: by 1884.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ A motion picture, a film, is from 1936.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) The more colloquial ''piccy'' is from 1889.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1884 – a picture.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1936 – a film.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # ''(informal)'' A [[photograph]] or [[picture]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(informal)'' A cinema [[film]].^(Collins 2023)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[biopic]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[picture]]

+ * [[pix]]

+ * [[piccy]]

+ * [[pictorial]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Several other words are spelled pic: an obsolete pic, a peak, as in the Pic of Tenerife (from French or Spanish pico);^(OED 1989)^(SOED 2002) pic, a former Levantine measure of length (from Turkish);^(SOED 2002) and pic, a picador or his lance (from Spanish pica), from the early 20th century.^(SOED 2002)^(MWU 2024)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}