The word "Photography" comes from the Greek words photoswhich means "light" and graphe' which means "drawing" or "writing," giving us "drawing with light."
Answer Many words in the English language come to us from Latin or Ancient Greek. "Photo" is derived from Greek - the Greek word "phos" means "light." The word "graph" also comes from a Greek word meaning "to draw." A Photograph is therefore a drawing made with light. We often shortern the word "photograph" to "photo." The latin word for "light" is "lux."
Photography is a method for producing lasting images by means of a chemical reaction that occurs when light hits a specially prepared surface. It was invented during the first decades of the 19th century as a direct consequence of advances in chemistry and optics (the science of the behavior of light). The word Photography comes from two Greek words that mean "writing with light".
Photo = light. Graph = writing. So a Photo - graph is light writing. When you consider original photographs where in black and white ( or sepia ) you can see it's a literal translation from the Greek.
The ancient Spartans spoke Dorian Greek, a dialect of ancient Greek language. Modern Spartans, like most other modern Greeks, speak modern Greek with the usual regional variations. ..
The word "photograph" was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς (phos), meaning "light", and γραφή (graphê), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light"
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From Greek, meaning painting with light
photo...from a greek word.
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