ракурс

From French raccourci (“shortcut; foreshortening”). Several steps omitting from Latin re- + ad- + Latin curtus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrakʊrs]

ра́курс • (rákurs) m inan (genitive ра́курса, nominative plural ра́курсы, genitive plural ра́курсов, relational adjective ра́курсный)

1. (painting, cinematography, photography) angle, foreshortening

   в ра́курсе ― v rákurse ― foreshortened

2. angle, viewpoint, perspective

   в э́том ра́курсе

   v étom rákurse

   from this perspective/viewpoint

• → Azerbaijani: rakurs

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “ракурс”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.