Etymology

photopaper

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Today it means: Photographic paper; paper coated with light-sensitive chemicals, used for making photographic prints on traditional film cameras. Full definition →

English paper ← Middle English paper ← Anglo-Norman paper
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰéh₂os
  3. Proto-Hellenic*pʰáwos
  4. Ancient Greekφᾰ́ος (phắos)
  5. Ancient Greekφῶς (phôs)
  6. Ancient Greekφωτο- (phōto-)
  7. Englishphoto-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
  9. Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
  10. Ancient Greekγράφω (gráphō)
  11. Englishphotographclip.
  12. Englishphoto
  13. Ancient Greekπάπυρος (pápuros)
  14. Latinpapȳrus
  15. Old Catalanpaper
  16. Anglo-Normanpaper
  17. Middle Englishpaper
  18. Englishpaper
  19. English todayphotopaper

From photo + paper.

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