Where does “foto” come from?
foto (German) comes from German Fotoapparat, from German Apparat, from Latin apparātus, from Latin apparō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
foto (German): photograph picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface
Definitions
- photograph picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface
Ancestry of “foto”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Fotoapparat | camera |
| 2 | German | Apparat | apparatus, device; phone |
| 3 | Latin | apparātus | prepared, having been prepared |
| 4 | Latin | apparō | to prepare or make ready for something, put in order, provide, furnish, equip, organize |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |