Where does “megapixel” come from?
megapixel (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian pixel, from English pixel, from English pix, from English pictures, from English picture, from Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, from Latin pictūra — to hew, cut out; to stitch, embroider, sting; to...
megapixel (Hungarian): megapixel unit of resolution of digital cameras equal to one million pixels
Definitions
- megapixel unit of resolution of digital cameras equal to one million pixels
Ancestry of “megapixel”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | pixel | pixel one of the tiny dots that make up the representation of an image in a computer's memory |
| 2 | English | pixel | One of the tiny dots that make up the... |
| 3 | English | pix | 1946, “Palisades Notes”, in "The Billboard",... |
| 4 | English | pictures | plural of picture; API pl; cinema, movie theatre |
| 5 | English | picture | A representation of anything upon canvas, paper,... |
| 6 | Middle English | pycture | — |
| 7 | Old French | picture | — |
| 8 | Latin | pictūra | painting, the art of painting |
| 9 | Latin | pingō | to decorate, adorn, embellish |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | peyḱ- | to hew, cut out; to stitch, embroider, sting; to... |