where does word 'paparazzi' come from?

Answer 1

The word paparazzi was popularized after the Federico Fellini 1960 film "La Dolce Vita." One of the characters in the film is a news photographer named Signore Paparazzo (played by Walter Santesso). In his book Word and Phrase Origins, author Robert Hendrickson writes that Fellini took the name paparazzi from an Italian dialect word for a particularly noisy, buzzing mosquito. In his school days, Fellini remembered a boy who was nicknamed "Paparazzo" (Mosquito), because of his fast talking and constant movements, a name Fellini later applied to the fictional character in "La Dolce Vita."

Answer 2

Paparazzi is a plural term (paparazzo being the singular form) for photographers who take candid photographs of celebrities, usually by relentlessly shadowing them in their public and private activities. Celebrities claiming to have been hounded by such photographers often use "paparazzi" as a pejorative term while news agencies commonly use the word in a broader sense to describe all photographers who take pictures of people of note.

The word paparazzi was popularized after the Federico Fellini 1960 film La Dolce Vita. One of the characters in the film is a news photographer named Signore Paparazzo (played by Walter Santesso). In his book Word and Phrase Origins, author Robert Hendrickson writes that Fellini took the name paparazzi from an Italian dialect word for a particularly noisy, buzzing mosquito. In his school days, Fellini remembered a boy who was nicknamed "Paparazzo" (Mosquito), because of his fast talking and constant movements, a name Fellini later applied to the fictional character in "La Dolce Vita."

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where does word 'paparazzi' come from?

Answer 4

it's an Italian word and it has something to do with the Mafia if I remember well

Answer 5

paparazzi is short for dipsh it!!! therefore they rearranged the letters and it stood!