selfie
English edit
Etymology edit
From self + -ie. Attested since 2002, originally Australian English.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɛlfi/
Audio (UK) (file)
Noun edit
selfie (plural selfies)
- (informal, mobile telephony) A photographic self-portrait, especially one taken manually (not using a timer, tripod etc.) with a small camera or mobile phone.
- 2002 September 13, N. "Hopey" Hope, "re: Dissolvable stitches" [1], ABC Online Forum selfie photo:
- 2004 October 21, Brian McGuirk, "bmcguirk's photos." [2], Flickr:
- Pre. Nice rooftop selfie. […] No Hair. Another nice rooftop selfie.
- 2012 December 27, Andrew Prince, “The Mars Rover Takes A Selfie” [3], the picture show, National Public Radio
- 2013 December 13, Roberto Schmidt (guest), Brooke Gladstone (interviewer and editor), “The Photographer Behind ‘Selfie-Gate’”, On the Media, National Public Radio:
- Barack Obama was talking to David Cameron and with the Danish Prime Minister, and that’s when she actually reached into her purse and brought out a cell phone and stretched her arms and did a selfie with them.
- 2017, Lord Stag, “Say Cheese”, in Lily's Driftwood Bay:
- I shall take this photograph myself. This must be what they call a selfie.
- take a selfie
Usage notes edit
Usage is very varied, including photos of oneself that are not taken by oneself (not self-portraits), as in “Could you take a selfie of me?” (compare autobiography, which may be written by a ghostwriter), or not only of oneself, as in “This is a selfie of me and my sister.” Many terms for recently popular photo genres have been coined by analogy by suffixing -ie, as in shelfie, or by blending, as in nelfie.[1] A self-portrait of multiple people is sometimes called an ussie, groupie, or selvesie.
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Descendants edit
- → Arabic: سِلْفِي (silfī)
- → Gulf Arabic: سلفي (silfi, salfi)
- → Armenian: սելֆի (selfi)
- → Assamese: চেল্ফি (selphi)
- → Azerbaijani: selfi
- → Belarusian: сэ́лфі (sélfi)
- → Czech: selfíčko
- → Danish: selfie
- → Dutch: selfie
- → Finnish: selfie
- → French: selfie
- → Georgian: სელფი (selpi)
- → German: Selfie
- → Greek: σέλφι (sélfi)
- → Hebrew: סֶלְפִי (sélfi)
- → Hungarian: szelfi, selfie
- → Irish: féinín (calque)
- → Italian: selfie
- → Japanese: セルフィー (serufi)
- → Hebrew: סֶלְפִי (sélfi)
- → Korean: 셀피 (selpi)
- → Latvian: selfijs
- → Lithuanian: selfis
- → Norwegian Bokmål: selfie
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: selfie
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: sjølvi (calque)
- → Papiamentu: selfie
- → Persian: سلفی (selfi)
- → Polish: selfie
- → Portuguese: selfie, sélfie
- → Romanian: selfie
- → Russian: се́лфи (sɛ́lfi)
- → Scottish Gaelic: fèineag (calque)
- → Serbo-Croatian: selfie
- → Slovak: selfie
- → Slovak: svojka (calque)
- → Spanish: selfie, selfi
- → Swedish: selfie
- → Thai: เซลฟี (seel-fîi)
- → Turkish: selfie, özçekim
- → Ukrainian: се́лфі (sélfi)
Translations edit
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Verb edit
selfie (third-person singular simple present selfies, present participle selfying, simple past and past participle selfied)
- (intransitive, informal, mobile telephony) To take a selfie.
Translations edit
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References edit
- ^ What Makes a Selfie a Selfie?, Gretchen McCulloch, Slate, April 1 2014
Further reading edit
- Selfie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Category:Selfies on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
selfie
Declension edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
selfie m (plural selfies, diminutive selfietje n)
Derived terms edit
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
selfie
Declension edit
Inflection of selfie (Kotus type 3/valtio, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | selfie | selfiet | ||
genitive | selfien | selfieiden selfieitten | ||
partitive | selfietä | selfieitä | ||
illative | selfieen | selfieihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | selfie | selfiet | ||
accusative | nom. | selfie | selfiet | |
gen. | selfien | |||
genitive | selfien | selfieiden selfieitten | ||
partitive | selfietä | selfieitä | ||
inessive | selfiessä | selfieissä | ||
elative | selfiestä | selfieistä | ||
illative | selfieen | selfieihin | ||
adessive | selfiellä | selfieillä | ||
ablative | selfieltä | selfieiltä | ||
allative | selfielle | selfieille | ||
essive | selfienä | selfieinä | ||
translative | selfieksi | selfieiksi | ||
abessive | selfiettä | selfieittä | ||
instructive | — | selfiein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “selfie”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
selfie m or f (plural selfies)
- selfie
- Synonyms: autophoto, égoportrait
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English selfie.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
selfie n (indeclinable)
- (informal, mobile telephony, photography) selfie
- Synonyms: selfiaczek, selfiak, selficzek, selfik, samojebka, samolubka, sweet focia
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English selfie.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
selfie f or (Brazil, less common) m (plural selfies)
- (proscribed) selfie (photographic self-portrait)
References edit
- ^ “selfie” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “selfie” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Unadapted borrowing from English selfie.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
selfie m or (less common) f (plural selfies)
- selfie
- Synonym: autofoto
- 2022, Bad Bunny (lyrics and music), “Tití Me Preguntó”, in Un Verano Sin Ti:
- Vamo' a tirarno' un selfie, say "cheese", ey
- Let’s take a selfie, say “cheese”, hey
Usage notes edit
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
selfie
- inflection of selfiar: