Ferrotype
/ˈfɛr.oʊ.taɪp/noun
A photograph made by the wet collodion process on a thin sheet of black-lacquered iron.
Did you know?The name comes from Latin ferrum, “iron,” plus Greek typos, “impression” or “mark,” so the word itself means an iron-made imprint.
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
ferrum
“iron”
Ancient Greek
Greek
typos
“a blow, mark made by a blow, impression”
19th Century
English
ferrotype
“a photographic image made on a thin iron plate”
19th Century
English
tintype
“a common name for the same kind of iron-backed photograph”
Modern English
English
ferrotype
“an obsolete process and its resulting photograph”