daguerreotype

See also: daguerréotype and daguerréotypé

English

Etymology

From French daguerréotype. Named after French artist Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dəˈɡɛɹ.(ɪ.)əʊˌtaɪp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dəˈɡɛɚ.(i.)oʊˌtaɪp/, /dəˈɡɛɚ.(i.)əˌtaɪp/

Noun

daguerreotype (plural daguerreotypes)

1. An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors; such a photograph.
2. The process of making such photographs.
3. (obsolete, figurative) A faithful or exact representation or description.
   • translation, "This objection also seems inappropriate since I never tried to establish a genealogical table of exceptional individuals, nor was I concerned in forming an intellectual daguerreotype of the scholar or naturalist of the seventeenth and eighteenth century.", quoting Michel Foucault, edited by Donald F. Bouchard, Language, counter-memory, practice: Selected essays and interviews, Ithaka, NY, →ISBN, What is an Author? (1969), page 115:

Derived terms

• daguerreotypist
• redaguerreotype

 

Related terms

• daguerreotyper
• daguerreotypy

Translations

type of photograph

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: дагераты́п m (dahjeratýp)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: daguerrotypie f
• Danish: daguerreotypi n
• Esperanto: dagerotipio
• Finnish: daguerrotypia (fi)
• French: daguerréotype (fr) m
• German: Daguerreotypie (de) f
• Hungarian: dagerrotípia (hu)
• Italian: dagherrotipo m
• Polish: dagerotyp (pl) m
• Portuguese: daguerreótipo (pt) m
• Russian: дагероти́п (ru) m (dagerotíp), дагерроти́п (ru) m (dagerrotíp)
• Slovak: dagerotyp m
• Spanish: daguerrotipo (es) m
• Swedish: dagerrotyp c

Verb

daguerreotype (third-person singular simple present daguerreotypes, present participle daguerreotyping, simple past and past participle daguerreotyped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).
2. (transitive, obsolete, figurative) To describe or represent exactly or faithfully; depict.
   • 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 20:

     He scanned my countenance with a pair of fierce, blood-shot eyes that I knew would daguerrotype my appearance indellibly ^[sic] and faithfully upon his mind.

Translations

make a photograph

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 用達蓋爾銀版法拍攝／用达盖尔银版法拍摄 (yòng Dágài'ěr yínbǎnfǎ pāishè), 用銀版攝影法拍攝／用银版摄影法拍摄 (yòng yínbǎn shèyǐngfǎ pāishè)

• Finnish: ottaa daguerrotypia
• French: daguerréotyper (fr)
• Polish: dagerotypować impf