Vol. 10 · Portmanteaus ·Late 20th century ·1995
Digicam
digital camera
- Meaning
- A digital still or video camera.
- Source words
- digital + camera
- Coined by
- unknown
- Year
- 1995
Background
US consumer-electronics press usage, initially for hobbyist digital SLRs. Smartphones have largely displaced digicams since 2010; the word now carries a Y2K-era nostalgia for point-and-shoot photography.
Late 20th century
Marketing, media, and the early internet. Infomercial, emoticon, workaholic — the coinages name phenomena of mass media and white-collar life. Several predate the decades they're associated with.
Two words, one coinage.
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