Meanings
verbphotographize (third-person singular simple present photographizes, present participle photographizing, simple past and past participle photographized)
present singular third person photographizes · participle present photographizing · participle past photographized · past photographized
- ambitransitivearchaicTo take one or more photographs of something.
[…] began climbing over ice, snow, and rocks, till at 10.15 we reached the top of the pass, and stopped again to eat, photographize, and look about.
1896, Arthur Fenton Hort, Life and Letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort, volume 1, page 328
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰéh₂os
- Proto-Hellenic*pʰáwos
- Ancient Greekφᾰ́ος (phắos)
- Ancient Greekφῶς (phôs)
- Ancient Greekφωτο- (phōto-)
- Englishphoto-
- Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
- Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
- Ancient Greekγράφω (gráphō)
- Englishphotograph
- Englishphotographize
From photograph + -ize.
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photographize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/photographize
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