photo
pronunciation
How to pronounce photo in British English:
UK [ˈfəʊtəʊ]
How to pronounce photo in American English:
US [ˈfoʊtoʊ]
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- Noun:
- a picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material
Word Origin
- photo
- photo: [19] Greek phōs meant ‘light’ (it was related to Sanskrit bhā- ‘shine’). Its stem form phōto- was used by the astronomer Sir John Herschel in 1839 to coin the term photograph, based on the Greek element -graphos ‘writing’, and perhaps inspired by a parallel German formation photographie which had appeared a little earlier the same year. The word’s living connection with the concept ‘light’ has now been virtually severed, but it still flourishes in, for example, photoelectric [19], photometer [18], photon [20], and photosynthesis [19].=> phosphorus, photon
- photo (n.)
- 1860, shortening of photograph. The verb is first recorded 1865, from the noun. Photo finish is attested from 1936. Photo opportunity first recorded 1974.
Example
- 1. • Clean up your photo links .
- 2. They posted a photo of us to let everyone know we were okay .
- 3. Instagram users will still be able to generate a tweet on twitter when they post a photo .
- 4. This example shows a lytro-taken photo .
- 5. This photo was taken in dublin .