Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·italian ·1960s
Paparazzi
from Paparazzo
- Meaning
- Plural of Paparazzo — the celebrity photographer in Fellini's La Dolce Vita (1960).
- Source word
- Paparazzo
- Route into English
- Fellini named the character after a hotel in Calabria; the word for the profession entered English by 1965.
- Arrived
- 1960s
English borrows.
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