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English

Etymology

From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pict?ra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from ping? (“I paint”). Doublet of pictura.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?kt??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?k(t)??/
• (US, regional) IPA^(key): /?p?t??/
• Rhymes: -?kt??(?)
• Homophone: pitcher (US, regional)

Noun

picture (plural pictures)

1. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
2. An image; a representation as in the imagination.
   • 1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A Day Dream

     My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

   • So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

   • 2007, The Workers' Republic

     Prior to seeing him and meeting him, and hearing him speak, I had conjured up a picture of him in my mind, which actual contact with him proved to be an illusion. I had conceived of him […] as being tall, commanding, and as the advance notices of him, a sliver-tongued orator. I found him, however, to be the opposite of my mental picture; short, squat, unpretentious […].

3. A painting.
4. A photograph.
5. (informal, dated) A motion picture.
6. (in the plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).

7. A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
8. An attractive sight.
9. The art of painting; representation by painting.
   • 1862, Henry Barnard, "Sir Henry Wotton" in American Journal of Education

     any well-expressed image […] either in picture or sculpture

10. A figure; a model.
    • September 8, 1620, James Howell, "To my Brother Dr. Howell" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

      the young king's picture […] in virgin wax

11. Situation.

Synonyms

• (representation as in the imagination): image

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

picture (third-person singular simple present pictures, present participle picturing, simple past and past participle pictured)

1. (transitive) To represent in or with a picture.
2. (transitive) To imagine or envision.
3. (transitive) To depict or describe vividly.

Translations

Related terms

• depict
• depiction
• pictorial

See also

• Wiktionary:Picture dictionary

Further reading

• picture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• picture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• cuprite

Latin

Participle

pict?re

1. vocative masculine singular of pict?rus

Norman

Etymology

From Old French picture, borrowed from Latin pict?ra (“the art of painting, a painting”) (compare the inherited Old French form peinture), from ping?, pingere (“paint; decorate, embellish”), from Proto-Indo-European *pey?- (“spot, color”).

Noun

picture f (plural pictures)

1. (Guernsey) picture

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