English
photo
Photo is a clipping of photograph.
- English1500–presentphotograph
- Englishearliest quotation 1981photo
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- English1500–presentphotograph
- Englishearliest quotation 1981photo
Earliest quotation: 1981, Personal advertisement: “Photo student in need of subjects.”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to carve’
grammar, crawl, crab, carve, crawfish, 81 more
through Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō ‘to scratch, cut or carve into’
graffiti, graft, demography, grimoire, ultrasonography, epigraph, sonography, astrophotography, 74 more
through Ancient Greek γράφω ‘to scratch, cut into’
Today it means
noun A photograph.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English photograph / photo