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Where does “fotogenico” come from?

fotogenico (Italian) comes from French photogénique, from English photogenic, from English genic, from English -ic, from English image, from French image, from Portuguese imagem, from Spanish imagen — in.

fotogenico (Italian): photogenic

Definitions

  1. photogenic

Ancestry of “fotogenico”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchphotogéniquephotogenic
2EnglishphotogenicGenerated or caused by light; Producing or...
3Englishgenicof, relating to, produced by, or being a gene
4English-icUsed to form adjectives from nouns with the...
5EnglishimageAn optical or other representation of a real...
6Frenchimagepicture, image; frame; first-person singular...
7Portugueseimagemimage; picture; figure; image; image; face
8Spanishimagenimage
9Italianimmagineimage; imago
10Latinimāginem—
11Latinim-Alternative form of in-; form of "in"; in
12Latinīn-—
13Latinîn—
14Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
15Proto-Italicenin
16Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin

Words derived from “fotogenico”

  • fotogenicità
  • fotogenia
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