Where does “fotogen” come from?
fotogen (German) comes from English photogenic, from English genic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen, from Italian immagine — in.
fotogen (German): photogenic
Definitions
- photogenic
Ancestry of “fotogen”, step by step
fotogen traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English photogenic
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | photogenic | Generated or caused by light; Producing or... |
| 2 | English | genic | of, relating to, produced by, or being a gene |
| 3 | English | -ic | Used to form adjectives from nouns with the... |
| 4 | English | image | An optical or other representation of a real... |
| 5 | French | image | picture, image; frame; first-person singular... |
| 6 | Portuguese | imagem | image; picture; figure; image; image; face |
| 7 | Spanish | imagen | image |
| 8 | Italian | immagine | image; imago |
| 9 | Latin | imāginem | — |
| 10 | Latin | im- | Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in |
| 11 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 12 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 13 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via French photogène
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | photogène | photogenic |
| 2 | French | -gène | -gen, -genic |
| 3 | Latin | -genus | born from, sprung form |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | -γενής | born in a certain place or condition; of a kind |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | -είᾱ | Superficially appears in abstract nouns derived from σ-stem adjectives, with the true suffix being |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -ής | adjective suffix |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ēs | Primarily forms adjectival bahuvrīhi compounds |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -ess | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -os | Creates action nouns or result nouns from verbs;... |