different between koto vs foto

English

Etymology

From Japanese ? (koto).

Noun

koto (plural kotos)

1. (music) A Japanese stringed instrument having numerous strings, usually seven or thirteen, that are stretched over a convex wooden sounding board and are plucked with three plectra, worn on the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of one hand.
   • 1962, Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America 2007, p. 94:

     Seated on the soft carpet with their drinks, they listened to a recording of koto, Japanese thirteen-string harp.

Derived terms

• kotoist

Translations

Anagrams

• Koot, Otok, toko, toko-, took

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko?.to?/
• Hyphenation: ko?to
• Rhymes: -o?to?

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo koto, from English coat.

Noun

koto m (plural koto's)

1. A traditional Surinamese dress, traditionally worn by women of African descent.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese ? (koto).

Noun

koto m (plural koto's)

1. A koto; a Japanese stringed instrument.

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?koto/
• Hyphenation: ko?to
• Rhymes: -oto

Noun

koto (accusative singular koton, plural kotoj, accusative plural kotojn)

1. mud

Derived terms

• kota (muddy)
• kotanimulo (“low-minded person”)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?koto/, [?ko?t?o?]
• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: ko?to

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *koto, which is derived from Proto-Finnic *kota. Cognate with Estonian kodu.

Noun

koto

1. (archaic) home
   • 1855 — Aleksis Kivi, Koto ja kahleet [1]

     Hän muisteli kotoansa kivisellä aholla yläpuolella vihantoja peltoja ja korkean vuoren alla.

Declension

Synonyms

• koti

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Japanese ? (koto)

Noun

koto

1. (music) koto (instrument)

Declension

Anagrams

• koot, toko

French

Etymology

From Japanese ? (koto).

Pronunciation

Noun

koto m (plural kotos)

1. koto (musical instruments)

See also

• koto on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

Further reading

• “koto” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Japanese

Romanization

koto

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Madurese

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu, from Proto-Austronesian *kuCu.

Noun

koto (plural kotokoto)

1. louse (insect)

Sambali

Noun

koto

1. louse (insect)

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English coat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ko.to/

Noun

koto

1. A traditional African-Surinamese dress.

Descendants

• ? Dutch: koto

Votic

Etymology

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Noun

koto (genitive koo, partitive [please provide])

1. house, home

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

References

• "koto" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat

English

Noun

foto (plural fotos)

1. (nonstandard, informal) Alternative spelling of photo
   • 1909, sign on an Atlantic City (New Jersey) beach, photographed and shown in National Geographic (August 2015), volume 228, number 2, page 132:

     Have your foto
     in a bathingsuit

   • 2000, Sam George Arcus, Deja Views of an Aging Orphan: Growing Up in the Hebrew National Orphan Home ?ISBN:

     But it didn't matter, fotos or drawings. They were all illustrations of tall, slinky girls with abnormally large breasts striving to be contained within abnormally small brassieres […]

Anagrams

• Foot, foot, ooft, toof

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch foto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f???.t???/

Noun

foto (plural foto's, diminutive foto'tjie)

1. photo; photograph

Asturian

Noun

foto f (plural fotos)

1. photograph (picture)

Synonyms

• fotografía

Catalan

Etymology 1

Clipping of fotografia.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fo.to/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?fo.tu/

Noun

foto f (plural fotos)

1. photograph

Derived terms

• autofoto

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

foto

1. first-person singular present indicative form of fotre

Further reading

• “foto” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Noun

foto n

1. (informal) photo

Synonyms

• See fotografie

Related terms

• See foto-

Further reading

• foto in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• foto in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Abbreviation of fotografi (“photograph”), from English photo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fod?o]

Noun

foto n (singular definite fotoet, plural indefinite fotoer or fotos)

1. photo

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Clipping of fotografie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fo?.to?/
• Hyphenation: fo?to
• Rhymes: -o?to?

Noun

foto f (plural foto's, diminutive fotootje n)

1. photo, photograph

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: foto
• ? Indonesian: foto

Anagrams

• ooft

Esperanto

Etymology

Clipping of fotografa?o.

Pronunciation

Noun

foto (accusative singular foton, plural fotoj, accusative plural fotojn)

1. photo

Synonyms

• fotografa?o

Related terms

• foti (“to photograph”)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?foto/, [?fo?t?o?]
• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: fo?to

Noun

foto

1. (informal) photo

Declension

Synonyms

• valokuva

Galician

Etymology

Clipping of fotografía.

Noun

foto f (plural fotos)

1. photo

Further reading

• “foto” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???, ????? (phôs, ph?tós, “light”).

Noun

foto (uncountable)

1. (physics) light

Synonyms

• lumo

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch foto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fot?o]
• Hyphenation: fo?to

Noun

foto (plural foto-foto, first-person possessive fotoku, second-person possessive fotomu, third-person possessive fotonya)

1. photo, photograph.

   Synonyms: fotograf, potret

2. (figuratively) image.

   Synonyms: bayangan, gambaran, pantulan

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “foto” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Clipping of fotografia.

Pronunciation

Noun

foto f (invariable)

1. photo, snap

Anagrams

• tofo

Latin

Participle

f?t?

1. dative masculine singular of f?tus
2. dative neuter singular of f?tus
3. ablative masculine singular of f?tus
4. ablative neuter singular of f?tus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Short form of fotografi (“photograph”), from English photo

Noun

foto n (definite singular fotoet, indefinite plural foto or fotoer, definite plural fotoa or fotoene)

1. photo

Derived terms

References

• “foto” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Short form of fotografi (“photograph”), from English photo

Noun

foto n (definite singular fotoet, indefinite plural foto, definite plural fotoa)

1. photo

Derived terms

References

• “foto” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Abbreviation of fotografia.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?f?.tu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?f?.tu/, [?f?.t??]
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?f?.to/

Noun

foto f (plural fotos)

2. photo; photograph

   Synonym: fotografia

Related terms

• foto-
• fotográfico
• fotógrafo

Romanian

Etymology

Clipping of fotografie.

Noun

foto n (plural foto-uri)

1. (rare) photo

Declension

Synonyms

• poz?, fotografie

Spanish

Etymology

Clipping of fotografía.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?foto/, [?fo.t?o]

Noun

foto f (plural fotos)

1. photo, photograph

Derived terms

• autofoto
• fotaza, fotazo

Related terms

Further reading

• “foto” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English fort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fo.to/

Noun

foto

1. city, town

Swedish

Noun

foto n

1. photo

Declension

Synonyms

• bild
• fotografi

Related terms

• fotograf
• fotografera
• fotografisk

Turkish

Etymology

Clipping of foto?raf

Noun

foto (definite accusative fotoyu, plural fotolar)

1. photo

Declension

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ????? (fóto).

Noun

foto

1. photograph

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??????????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika