screenshot

See also: Screenshot

English

A screenshot.

Etymology

From screen +‎ shot (“(photography) single unbroken sequence of photographic exposures”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈskriːn.ʃɒt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun

screenshot (plural screenshots)

1. (computing) An image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time.

   Synonyms: screencast, screen capture, screen dump, screengrab, screenie, screencap

   I grabbed a screenshot of my desktop.

Descendants

• → Dutch: screenshot
• → German: Screenshot
• → Italian: screenshot
• → Japanese: スクリーンショット (sukurīnshotto), スクショ (sukusho)
• → Korean: 스크린샷 (seukeurinsyat), 스샷 (seusyat)
• → Portuguese: screenshot
• → Russian: скриншо́т (skrinšót), скри́ншот (skrínšot)
• → Thai: สกรีนช็อต (sà-griin-chɔ́t)
• → Ukrainian: скріншот (skrinšot), скрін (skrin)

Translations

image of computer screen output

• Amharic: ቅጽበታዊ ገጽ እይታ (ḳəṣbätawi gäṣ ʾəyta)
• Catalan: captura de pantalla f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 截圖／截图 (zh) (jiétú)

• Czech: snímek obrazovky m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: schermafbeelding f, schermafdruk m, screenshot (nl) m
• Esperanto: ekrankopio, ekranprintaĵo
• Finnish: kuvakaappaus (fi), ruudunkaappaus, näyttökuva (fi)
• French: capture d’écran (fr) f
• Galician: captura de pantalla f
• German: Screenshot (de) m, Bildschirmfoto (de) n, Bildschirmabzug (de) m (obsolete), Hardcopy f (obsolete)
• Greek: στιγμιότυπο (el) n (stigmiótypo)
• Hungarian: képernyőkép, képernyőfotó, képernyőmentés
• Indonesian: cuplikan layar
• Italian: schermata (it) f, videata (it) f, screenshot (it) m
• Japanese: スクリーンショット (ja) (sukurīnshotto), スクショ (ja) (sukusho)
• Korean: 스크린샷 (seukeurinsyat), 스샷 (seusyat)
• Latvian: ekrānšāviņš m
• Malay: tangkap layar (ms)
• Maori: kapomata
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⵉⵎⵥ ⵏ ⵓⵎⵉⵥⴰⵕ (Imẓ n umiẓaṛ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skjermbilde n, skjermdump m

  Nynorsk: skjermbilete n, skjermbilde n

• Polish: zrzut ekranu m
• Portuguese: captura de ecrã f (Portugal), captura de tela f (Brazil), screenshot (pt) m, print (pt) m
• Romanian: captură de ecran f
• Russian: скриншо́т (ru) m (skrinšót), скри́ншот (ru) m (skrínšot) , сни́мок экра́на m (snímok ekrána)
• Serbo-Croatian: snimak zaslona m, снимак заслона m
• Spanish: captura de pantalla f, pantallazo (es) m
• Swedish: skärmbild (sv) c, skärmdump (sv) c
• Thai: สกรีนช็อต (th) (sà-griin-chɔ́t), ภาพหน้าจอ (th) (pâap-nâa-jɔɔ)
• Tigrinya: ቅጽበታዊ ገጽ ትርኢት (ḳəṣbätawi gäṣ tərʾit), ቅጽበታዊ ምስሊ (ḳəṣbätawi məsli)
• Turkish: ekran görüntüsü, ekran yakalama görüntüsü
• Ukrainian: зня́ток m (znjátok)
• Vietnamese: ảnh chụp màn hình, hình chụp màn hình
• Welsh: sgrînlun m

See also

• bullshot

Verb

screenshot (third-person singular simple present screenshots, present participle screenshotting, simple past and past participle screenshotted or (less common) screenshot)

1. (computing, transitive) To take a screenshot of something.

   To help to improve the software, make sure to screenshot any bugs you find.

   • 2023 February 22, “Network News: Northern thwarts barcode cheats”, in RAIL, number 977, page 25:

     Northern has made it harder for fraudsters to cheat checks on barcode season tickets. The operator has made it impossible for people to screenshot tickets from within the Northern app and then share the tickets for others to use.

Translations

take a screenshot

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 截圖／截图 (zh) (jiétú)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: ekrankopii
• Finnish: ottaa kuvakaappaus
• German: ein Bildschirmfoto machen
• Hungarian: képernyőképet/képernyőfotót/képernyőmentést készít
• Maori: kapomata
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⴰⵎⵥ ⴰⵎⵉⵥⴰⵕ (Amẓ amiẓaṛ)
• Portuguese: (Portugal) capturar ecrã, (Portugal) tirar uma captura de ecrã, (Brazil) capturar tela, (Brazil) tirar uma captura de tela
• Russian: заскриншо́тить (ru) pf (zaskrinšótitʹ), отскриншо́тить (ru) pf (otskrinšótitʹ), заскри́нить (ru) pf (zaskrínitʹ), отскри́нить (ru) pf (otskrínitʹ), скриншо́тить (ru) impf (skrinšótitʹ), скри́нить (ru) impf (skrínitʹ), де́лать скриншо́т pf (délatʹ skrinšót), сде́лать скриншо́т impf (sdélatʹ skrinšót), де́лать сни́мок экра́на pf (délatʹ snímok ekrána), сде́лать сни́мок экра́на impf (sdélatʹ snímok ekrána)
• Spanish: capturar la pantalla, sacar un pantallazo, tomar un pantallazo
• Swedish: ta skärmbild, ta skärmdump
• Vietnamese: chụp màn hình

Further reading

• screenshot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English screenshot.

Noun

screenshot m

1. (computing) screenshot (image of computer screen output)

   Synonym: schermata

Further reading

• screenshot in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English screenshot.

Noun

screenshot m (plural screenshots)

1. (computing) screenshot (image of computer screen output)

   Synonyms: captura de ecrã, captura de tela, print, Print Screen

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:screenshot.

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English screenshot

Noun

screenshot m (plural screenshots)

1. screenshot

   Synonym: pantallazo

Usage notes

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.