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[recensere] How to "take" a photograph?
What's the Latin verb for 'to take' in the idiom "to take a photograph"? IacobusAmor 11:00, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- There is already a word for it I think; "photographere". But I think that's a pretty bad word (to use in a conversation i.e.) so my best guess would simply be adsumere (adsumo photographiam) or cogitare, (cogitare meaning shooting a photo, so one wouldn't have to add "a photo"; largiter cogito (I take a lot og pictures))? Just a though. --BiT 13:00, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- PONS: photographia f, machina photographica vel photomachina, photographus m, photographare v, photocopia f, photocopiare v, photocopiatrum n. --Alex1011 13:13, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- Capere, or a compound thereof?--Ioshus (disp) 13:18, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- Capere means grasp or seize right? Wouldn't adsumere fit better? I don't know.. --BiT 14:11, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- Our English usage doesn't seem very logical (to me), so why transfer it to Latin? If the simple verb "photographare" doesn't fit, I think "facere photographiam", to make a photograph, would be easier to understand. Andrew Dalby 14:17, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- True, the idiom to "take a photo" is also found in Icelandic... but the idiom "to facere photographiam" sounds good. --BiT 14:19, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- Our English usage doesn't seem very logical (to me), so why transfer it to Latin? If the simple verb "photographare" doesn't fit, I think "facere photographiam", to make a photograph, would be easier to understand. Andrew Dalby 14:17, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- Well, cf English: "Capture a photograph". Take is the same idea: to remove a static image. I mean that's even a slogan, right? Kodak maybe? "Capture the magic"? Adsumere would be more for like seizing command of a vessel, or assuming a position, or, cf English again, "assume". I still like capere...--Ioshus (disp) 14:20, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- I lean to capere, for Ioshus's reason ; but Andrew's facere does feel rather Roman : the only problem I have with it is that it doesn't distinguish between the person who snaps the shutter and the person who works in the developing room. If capere were to 'take' an image, could facere be to 'print' it? And what verb would we use for the idiom 'to Photoshop' an image ?! IacobusAmor 15:23, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- Phototabernare? No, don't quote me on that ... Andrew Dalby 19:41, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- Capisseredemundeetexplicareadcartere? --BiT 21:26, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- In Spanish we have either hacer una foto (do/make a photo) or tirar una foto (throw a photo)--Xaverius 21:28, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- In Icelandic we have að taka mynd (to take a picture), að smella einni mynd af (lit. to click one picture of), að mynda e-h (to picture s-t).. --BiT 22:54, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- Germanice fotografieren, Foto machen quod est "photographare", "photographiam facere". Etiam knipsen "cnipsare"? --Alex1011 09:51, 23 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- Samoane: pu'e le ata 'prehendere/capere umbram' (Anglice: 'catch a shadow'). Havaiane: pa‘i ke ki‘i 'corripere/prehendere imaginem' (Anglice: 'snap/seize an image'). IacobusAmor 13:01, 23 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- Germanice fotografieren, Foto machen quod est "photographare", "photographiam facere". Etiam knipsen "cnipsare"? --Alex1011 09:51, 23 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- In Icelandic we have að taka mynd (to take a picture), að smella einni mynd af (lit. to click one picture of), að mynda e-h (to picture s-t).. --BiT 22:54, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- In Spanish we have either hacer una foto (do/make a photo) or tirar una foto (throw a photo)--Xaverius 21:28, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- Capisseredemundeetexplicareadcartere? --BiT 21:26, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- Capere means grasp or seize right? Wouldn't adsumere fit better? I don't know.. --BiT 14:11, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- Capere, or a compound thereof?--Ioshus (disp) 13:18, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
- PONS: photographia f, machina photographica vel photomachina, photographus m, photographare v, photocopia f, photocopiare v, photocopiatrum n. --Alex1011 13:13, 22 Februarii 2007 (UTC)
