foto

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 […]

• Foot, foot, ooft, toof

From Dutch foto.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʊə̯.tʊə̯/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

1. photo; photograph

foto f (plural fotos)

1. photograph (picture)

• fotografía

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈfo.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfo.to]

Clipping of fotografia.

foto f (plural fotos)

1. photograph

• autofoto

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

foto

1. first-person singular present indicative of fotre

• “foto”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Clipping of fotografie.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfoto]

foto n (indeclinable)

1. (informal) photo

   Synonym: fotografie

• See foto-

• “foto”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “foto”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈfod̥o]

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

1. photo

Clipping of fotografie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoː.toː/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: fo‧to
• Rhymes: -oːtoː

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

1. photo, photograph

• Afrikaans: foto
• → Caribbean Hindustani: foto
• → Caribbean Javanese: foto
• → Indonesian: foto
• → Sranan Tongo: fowtow

• ooft

Clipping of fotografaĵo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoto/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oto
• Hyphenation: fo‧to

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

1. photo

• fotografaĵo

• foti (“to photograph”)

foto (genitive foto, partitive fotot)

1. photograph, photo

Declension of foto (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		foto	fotod
accusative	nom.
	gen.	foto
genitive			fotode
partitive		fotot	fotosid
illative		fotto fotosse	fotodesse
inessive		fotos	fotodes
elative		fotost	fotodest
allative		fotole	fotodele
adessive		fotol	fotodel
ablative		fotolt	fotodelt
translative		fotoks	fotodeks
terminative		fotoni	fotodeni
essive		fotona	fotodena
abessive		fotota	fotodeta
comitative		fotoga	fotodega

• fotograaf
• fotograafia

• “foto”, in [EKSS] 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)

From Swedish foto.

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

foto (informal)

1. photo

• valokuva

• “foto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

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.

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

Clipping of fotografía.

foto f (plural fotos)

1. photo

• “foto”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Borrowed from Ancient Greek φῶς, φωτός (phôs, phōtós, “light”).

foto (uncountable)

1. (physics) light

• lumo

From Dutch foto.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈfoto/ [ˈfo.t̪o]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: fo‧to

foto (plural foto-foto)

1. photograph; photo

   Synonyms: fotograf, potret

2. (figurative) image

   Synonyms: bayangan, gambaran, pantulan

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

Clipping of fotografia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.to/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔto
• Hyphenation: fò‧to

foto f (invariable)

1. photo, snap

• tofo

fōtō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of fōtus

Borrowed from French photo.

• IPA^(key): /fo.to/

foto

1. photograph

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

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

1. photo

• “foto” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

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

1. photo

• “foto” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Clipping of fotografia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.tɔ/

• Audio:

  (file)

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

foto n

1. (colloquial, photography) photo

   Synonyms: fotka, fotografia, zdjęcie

foto (not comparable, no derived adverb)

1. (colloquial, photography, relational) photographic

   Synonym: fotograficzny

• foto in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Clipping of fotografia.

• Hyphenation: fo‧to

foto f (plural fotos)

2. photo; photograph

   Synonym: fotografia

• foto-
• fotográfico
• fotógrafo

Clipping of fotografie.

foto n (plural foto-uri)

1. (rare) photo

   Synonyms: poză, fotografie

Clipping of fotografía.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfoto/ [ˈfo.t̪o]

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: fo‧to

foto f (plural fotos)

1. photo, photograph

   ¿Puede sacar una foto por favor?

   Could you take a photo please?

• “foto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From English fort, from Middle French fort (“strong”). Originally, this word meant "fort" and specifically referred to Fort Zeelandia, but since Fort Zeelandia and Paramaribo are closely connected, the meaning was transferred to the latter.^[1] Nowadays, it can refer to any town.

• IPA^(key): /foto/, [fʊ̞tʊ̞], [fɔ̝tɔ̝]

foto

1. city, town
   • c. 1885, Johannes King, “Skrekiboekoe [Book of horrors]”, in Jan Voorhoeve, Ursy M. Lichtveld, editors, Suriname: Spiegel der vaderlandse kooplieden‎^[3], Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, published 1980, →ISBN, pages 108, 110:

     En ala dem ouloetem gran avoo vo wi ben de Afrikan ningre na ningre kondre. Na janda dem ouroetem bakra go bai dem avoo vo wi potti na ini sipi tjari koti habra da bigi soutoe watra, en dem tjari dem kom doro dia na foto Paramaribo.

     [Èn ala den owruten granawo fu wi ben de Afrikan nengre na nengrekondre. Na yanda den owruten bakra go bai den awo fu wi poti na ini sipi tyari koti abra a bigi sowtu watra èn den tyari den kon doro dya na foto Paramaribo]

     And all our forefathers of the olden days were African negroes from negro-country. It was over there that the whites of old went and bought our forefathers and put them in ships to take them across the big salt water, and brought them here to the city of Paramaribo.

   • 1989 April 1, “Na pori fu wan nâsi [The destruction of a nation]”, in A waktitoren‎^[4], Selters-Taunus: Wachtturm-Gesellschaft (Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses), page 41:

     Owru foto ben abi hey skotu èn kofarliki bigi doro. Fu sroto den doro disi, dan den ben greni den na inisey nanga langa isri ofu brons barki.

     Old cities had high walls and huge gates. To lock these gates, they bolted them shut on the inside with long iron or bronze bars.

   • 2022, “Moi les di yu kan leri fu Bijbel”, in Yehovah Kotoigi [Jehovah's Witnesses]‎^[5], Les 52: Wan bigi legre di de leki faya:

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

     When he found out that Elisha was in the city of Dothan, he sent an army from Syria to capture him.

2. (archaic) synonym of benfoto (“fort, fortress”)

foto

1. (informal) synonym of Paramaribo (the capital city of Suriname)
   • 1783, C. L. Schumann, “bringi”, in Neger-Englisches Wörterbuch [Negro English Dictionary]‎^[6] (in German), archived from the original on 8 February 2023:

     na fotto dem no habi da muffe so menni; da Djutongo: ma nuffe plantasi habi hem.

     [Na foto, den no abi a mofo someni; na Dyutongo. Ma nofo pranasi abi en.]

     In the city, they don't have [use] this word so much; it's Saramaccan. But enough plantations have [use] it.

   • 1856, Heinrich Wullschlägel, Deutsch-negerenglisches Wörterbuch. Nebst einem Anhang, negerenglische Sprüchwörter enthaltend [German-Negro English dictionary. Containing, in addition to an appendix, Negro English proverbs]‎^[7] (in German), Löbau: J.U. Duroldt, page 138:

     nomo mi doro na pranasi so pram, wantem mi seni hem go na foto.

     [Nomo mi doro na pranasi so pran, wanten mi seni en go na foto.]

     I had barely arrived at the plantation, when I sent him into town immediately.

   • 1960, Big Jones And His Kawina Band, “Ala Pikin Nengre”, in Suriname‎^[8]:

     Ala pikinnengre / te we go na foto / unu mu luku den bon / nanga den strati tu

     All you kids / when we go into town / have a look at the trees / and the streets too

   • 1974 June 29, Fred W. Omskirk Sr., “Manspasi”, in Vrije Stem: onafhankelijk weekblad voor Suriname‎^[9], page 1:

     Ef mi ben sab pe joe grebi de, / mi gran afo, di krodong tjari / kon na Sranan, / so farawe fjoe eegi doti, / biten tédei, Manspasidei / psa hondro jari di keti koti, / mi ben sa saka libi foto, / mi ben sa pari mi eegi boto / f'kon saka kiendie na joe sei.

     [Efu mi ben sabi pe yu grebi de / mi gran afo, di krodon tyari / kon na Sranan, / so farawe fu yu eigi doti / biten tide, Manspasidei / psa hondro yari di keti koti / mi ben sa saka libi foto / mi ben sa pari mi eigi boto / fu kon saka kindi na yu sei.]

     If I knew where your grave was, my grand ancestor, whom forced labour / brought to Suriname / so far away from your own native soil, / early today, Emancipation Day / hundred years after the chains were broken, / I would have left the city, / I would have paddled my own boat / to come and kneel by your side.

• Sense 2: within Paramaribo, "foto" refers specifically to down town. However, outside of Paramaribo, it can denote any location in town.^[2]

• Aukan: foto
• Saramaccan: fóto

foto n

1. photo

• bild
• fotografi

• fotograf
• fotografera
• fotografisk

• foto in Svensk ordbok.

From Indonesian foto, from Dutch foto.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfo.to]

foto

1. a photograph

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

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foto (definite accusative fotoyu, plural fotolar)

1. photo

Borrowed from Russian фо́то (fóto).

foto

1. photograph

Inflection of foto (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing.	foto
genitive sing.	foton
partitive sing.	fotod
partitive plur.	fotoid
	singular	plural
nominative	foto	fotod
accusative	foton	fotod
genitive	foton	fotoiden
partitive	fotod	fotoid
essive-instructive	foton	fotoin
translative	fotoks	fotoikš
inessive	fotos	fotoiš
elative	fotospäi	fotoišpäi
illative	fotho fotoho	fotoihe
adessive	fotol	fotoil
ablative	fotolpäi	fotoilpäi
allative	fotole	fotoile
abessive	fotota	fotoita
comitative	fotonke	fotoidenke
prolative	fotodme	fotoidme
approximative I	fotonno	fotoidenno
approximative II	fotonnoks	fotoidennoks
egressive	fotonnopäi	fotoidennopäi
terminative I	fothosai fotohosai	fotoihesai
terminative II	fotolesai	fotoilesai
terminative III	fotossai	—
additive I	fothopäi fotohopäi	fotoihepäi
additive II	fotolepäi	fotoilepäi

• Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “фотография”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[10], Petrozavodsk: Periodika