foto

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

   • 1977 April 23, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18:

     Reply with foto and phone to GCN box 719

   • 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): /ˈfʊə̯.tʊə̯/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

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

1. photo; photograph

Asturian

Noun

foto f (plural fotos)

1. photograph (picture)

Synonyms

• fotografía

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian)

Etymology 1

Clipping of fotografia.

Noun

foto f (plural fotos)

1. photograph

Derived terms

• autofoto

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

foto

1. first-person singular present indicative of fotre

Further reading

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

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

foto n

1. (informal) photo

   Synonym: fotografie

Declension

Related terms

• See foto-

Further reading

• foto in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• foto in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

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

1. photo

Inflection

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

foto

Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology

Clipping of fotografie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoː.toː/

• audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fo‧to
• Rhymes: -oːtoː

Noun

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

1. photo, photograph

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: foto
• → Caribbean Hindustani: foto
• → Caribbean Javanese: foto
• → Indonesian: foto

Anagrams

• ooft

Esperanto

Etymology

Clipping of fotografaĵo.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

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

1. photo

Synonyms

• fotografaĵo

Related terms

• foti (“to photograph”)

Estonian

Noun

foto (genitive foto, partitive fotot)

1. photograph, photo

Declension

Related terms

• fotograaf
• fotograafia

Further reading

• “foto”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• “foto”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• foto in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Finnish

Etymology

From Swedish foto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoto/,
• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification^(key): fo‧to

Noun

foto (informal)

1. photo

Declension

Synonyms

• valokuva

Further reading

• “foto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Fula

Adjective

foto

1. (Maasina) how many people

   Yimɓe foto ngollata ɗo.

   How many people work here?

   Miɗo yiɗi ndaarude yimɓe foto keƴata ley mobel ngel.

   I want to see how many people can fit into the truck.

References

• Richard Smith, Urs Niggli, Dictionnaire fulfulde - anglais - français, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2016.

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 φῶς, φωτός (phôs, phōtós, “light”).

Noun

foto (uncountable)

1. (physics) light

Synonyms

• lumo

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

foto

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

From Dutch foto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• 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. (figurative) image.

   Synonyms: bayangan, gambaran, pantulan

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “foto” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

Clipping of fotografia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.to/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔto
• Hyphenation: fò‧to

Noun

foto f (invariable)

1. photo, snap

Anagrams

• tofo

Latin

Participle

fōtō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of fōtus

Moore

Etymology

Borrowed from French photo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /fo.to/

Noun

foto

1. photograph

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.

Polish

Etymology

Clipping of fotografia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.tɔ/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔtɔ
• Syllabification: fo‧to
• Homophone: foto-

Noun

foto n

1. (colloquial, photography) photo

   Synonyms: fotka, fotografia, zdjęcie

Adjective

foto (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (colloquial, photography, relational) photographic

   Synonym: fotograficzny

Further reading

• foto in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

foto

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology

Clipping of fotografia.

Pronunciation

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

   Synonyms: poză, fotografie

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Clipping of fotografía.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoto/

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: fo‧to

Noun

foto f (plural fotos)

1. photo, photograph

   ¿Puede sacar una foto por favor?

   Could you take a photo please?

Derived terms

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): /ˈfo.to/

Noun

foto

1. city, town
   • (Can we date this quote?), “Wan bigi legre di de leki faya”, in Jehovah's Witnesses‎:

     Di a kon sabi taki Elisa ben de na ini a foto Dotan, a seni a legre fu Siria fu go teki en.

     He found out that Elisha was in the city of Dothan, and he sent the Syrian army there to capture him.

Derived terms

Swedish

Noun

foto n

1. photo

Declension

Synonyms

• bild
• fotografi

Related terms

• fotograf
• fotografera
• fotografisk

Further reading

• foto in Svensk ordbok.

Ternate

Etymology

From Indonesian foto, from Dutch foto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

foto

1. a photograph

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Turkish

Etymology

Clipping of fotoğraf

Noun

foto (definite accusative fotoyu, plural fotolar)

1. photo

Declension

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian фо́то (fóto).

Noun

foto

1. photograph

Inflection

References

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