photograph

noun

(photography) A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.

verb

(transitive, intransitive) To take a photograph (of).

(intransitive) To appear in a photograph.

(transitive, figurative) To fix permanently in the memory etc.

Roots

phaosphos- · Greek · light (from 'to shine')grapho-graph · Greek · write, draw

Synonyms for photograph

photon picturen telephotographn picn photomural photomicrographn portraitn telephoton photomontagen snapshotn

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Where does photograph come from?

The word photograph breaks down into 2 roots of Greek origin: phos-, from Greek phaos (“light (from 'to shine')”); and -graph, from Greek grapho (“write, draw”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.