paparazzo
[ pah-puh-raht-soh; Italian pah-pah-raht-tsaw ]
/ ˌpɑ pəˈrɑt soʊ; Italian ˌpɑ pɑˈrɑt tsɔ /
noun, plural pa·pa·raz·zi [pah-puh-raht-see; Italian pah-pah-raht-tsee] /ˌpɑ pəˈrɑt si; Italian ˌpɑ pɑˈrɑt tsi/.
a freelance photographer, especially one who takes candid pictures of celebrities for publication.
Origin of paparazzo
1965–70; < Italian, from the surname of such a photographer in Federico Fellini's
La dolce vita (1959), after the name of a hotelkeeper in George Gissing's
By the Ionian Sea (1901), read by Fellini in It translation at the time of the movie's producton
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British Dictionary definitions for paparazzo
paparazzo
/ (ˌpæpəˈrætsəʊ) /
noun plural -razzi (-ˈrætsiː)
a freelance photographer who specializes in candid camera shots of famous people and often invades their privacy to obtain such photographs
Word Origin for paparazzo
C20: from Italian