paparazzi
pronunciation
How to pronounce paparazzi in British English:
UK [ˌpæp(ə)ˈrætsi]
How to pronounce paparazzi in American English:
US [pɑpɑˈrɔzi]
Word Origin
- paparazzi
- paparazzi: [20] In Federico Fellini’s film La Dolce Vita (1959), a press photographer who pesters celebrities is called Paparazzo (the name was supplied by the writer of the film’s scenario, Ennio Flaiano, who in turn got it from Sulle Rive dello Ionio (1957), Margherita Guidacci’s translation of George Gissing’s travel book By the Ionian Sea (1901), in which a restaurantowner is called Coriolano Paparazzo). By the late 1960s the name, usually in the Italian plural form paparazzi, had entered English as a generic term for such intrusive snappers.
- paparazzi (n.)
- 1961, from Italian Paparazzo (plural paparazzi) surname of the freelance photographer in Federico Fellini's 1959 film "La Dolce Vita." The surname itself is of no special significance; it is said to be a common one in Calabria, and Fellini is said to have borrowed it from a travel book, "By the Ionian Sea," in which occurs the name of hotel owner Coriolano Paparazzo.
Example
- 1. Her life is under constant scrutiny by the paparazzi .
- 2. Did we lose them ? Did we lose the paparazzi ?
- 3. I had to avoid the press , the paparazzi .
- 4. Kim gottlieb-walker says what she does is totally different to the pictures taken by paparazzi photographers .
- 5. As chaney peered out his venetian blinds , he saw the paparazzi camped outside his house in vans and lawn chairs .