English

talbotype

From Talbot + type, after its inventor Henry Fox Talbot.

A compound of Talbot + type

Old High German *Talbald

Old French talebot ‘bandit’

Middle English talbot

Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- ‘to push’

Ancient Greek τύπτω ‘to strike’

Ancient Greek τύπος ‘mark’

Latin typus

Middle English type ‘symbol’

English type

Today it means

noun An early photograph produced on paper coated with silver iodide.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / talbotype