Where does “daguerreotype” come from?
Daguerreotype comes from French daguerréotype, named after Louis Daguerre, the inventor of an early photographic process in the 1830s.
daguerreotype (English): An early type of photograph created by exposing a...
Definitions
- An early type of photograph created by exposing a...
Ancestry of “daguerreotype”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | French | daguerréotype | daguerreotype; daguerreotypy; first-person... |
| 2 | French | -o- | — |
Words derived from “daguerreotype”