Description:

Foto is part of a set of three main terms in Common dealing with images, the others being 'trima' and 'snap'. Foto is a loanword from English.

'Foto' deals with faithful captures of an image or scene - while it can deal with an image as art, it is usually used in the context of physical images in the real world as opposed to online, and to images meant to be literal as opposed to abstract.

Noun:

As a noun, 'foto' means a physical image which is a faithful representation of a real scene. It can refer to images as art, although that's more 'trima', or to digital images, although that's more 'snap'. In both edge cases, it's usually employed when the image is very literal and real.

There are a number of important derived forms:

• fotoca: photographer
• fotoka: subject (of a photograph)
• fotowala: a word for 'camera'

Verb:

As a verb, 'foto' is a transitive skurun verb meaning to capture a photographic image. It takes an ergative photographer and an absolute subject.

Modifier:

The modifier form 'fotos' means 'photographic'.