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English
Etymology
From the root vide of Latin videō ( “ I see ” ) + -o , formed in analogy to audio .
Pronunciation
Noun
video (countable and uncountable , plural videos or videmus )
A VHS video casette
Television , television show , movie .
A short film clip, with or without audio (as in a music video , or one of the plethora of user-generated short movies on sites such as YouTube ).
Synonyms: clip , vid
We made a video montage of Robbie for his fiftieth birthday.
Check out my new videos on YouTube.
Motion picture stored on VHS or some other format.
( dated ) VHS .
Usage notes
Video is used in contrast with audio , which is sound only. It is also sometimes used in contrast with film to describe all other motion picture formats, such as videotape and digital video . The words video and movie have some synonymous overlap, but a feature film on the big screen is only a movie in idiomatic use (not a video ), and web-era user-created videos are usually not called movies except in certain contexts.
The plural videmus is rare and used for humorous effect. It is the first-person plural form of the Latin verb ("we see") in the same way that videō is the singular.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
television show, movie
Albanian: video
Arabic: فِيدِيُو m ( fīdiyū )
Hijazi Arabic: فيديو m ( fīdyu, vīdyu )
Armenian: վիդէո ( vidēo ) ( Eastern ) , վիտէօ ( vitēō ) ( Western ) , վիդեո (hy) ( video )
Belarusian: ві́дэа n ( vídea )
Bengali: ভিডিও (bn) ( bhiḍiō )
Bulgarian: ви́део (bg) n ( vídeo )
Burmese: ဗီဒီယို (my) ( bidiyui )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 影片 ( jing2 pin3-2 )
Mandarin: 視頻 / 视频 (zh) ( shìpín ) ( chiefly Mainland China ) , 影片 (zh) ( yǐngpiàn, yǐngpiān )
Cornish: gwydhyow m
Corsican: videu m
Czech: pořad (cs) m , video (cs) n
Danish: video (da)
Dutch: televisie (nl) f , televisieshow m , film (nl) m
Esperanto: video
Estonian: video (et)
Finnish: video (fi)
French: vidéo (fr) f
Galician: vídeo (gl) m
Georgian: ვიდეო ( video )
German: Video (de) n
Greek: βίντεο (el) n ( vínteo )
Gujarati: દૂરદર્શન ( dūrdarśan )
Hawaiian: wikiō
Hebrew: וִידֵאוֹ (he) m ( víde'o )
Hindi: वीडियो m ( vīḍiyo )
Hungarian: videó (hu) sg
Icelandic: myndband n
Ido: video (io)
Indonesian: video (id)
Irish: físeán m
Italian: video (it) m
Japanese: ビデオ (ja) ( bideo ) , 映像 (ja) ( えいぞう, eizō )
Kalmyk: үзллт ( üzllt )
Kazakh: бейне ( beine )
Khmer: វីដេអូ ( viideeʼou )
Korean: 비디오 (ko) ( bidio ) , 영상(映像) (ko) ( yeongsang )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ڤیدیۆ (ckb) ( vîdyo )
Northern Kurdish: vîdyo (ku) f , vîdeo (ku) f
Kyrgyz: көрмө (ky) ( körmö )
Lao: ວິດີໂອ ( wi dī ʼō )
Macedonian: видео n ( video )
Maltese: vidjow
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: видео (mn) ( video )
Norman: vidgo m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: video m
Nynorsk: video m
Pashto: ویډو
Persian:
Iranian Persian: ویدِیو (fa) ( vidiyo )
Polish: wideo (pl) n
Portuguese: vídeo (pt) m
Romanian: video (ro)
Russian: ви́део (ru) n ( vídeo )
Sardinian: video m
Scottish Gaelic: bhidio m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ви̑део n
Roman: vȋdeo (sh) n
Sicilian: vìdiu m
Slovak: video n
Slovene: video m
Spanish: vídeo (es) m ( Spain ) , video (es) m ( Latin America )
Swahili: filamu (sw)
Swedish: video (sv) c
Tajik: видео (tg) ( video )
Tatar: видео ( wideo )
Thai: วิดีโอ ( wí-dii-oo )
Turkish: video (tr)
Turkmen: wideo
Ukrainian: ві́део n ( vídeo )
Urdu: وِیڈِیو m ( vīḍiyo )
Uyghur: ۋىدېئو ( widë'o )
Vietnamese: vi-đê-ô
Welsh: fideo (cy) m
Yiddish: ווידעאָ m ( video )
motion picture stored on VHS
Verb
video (third-person singular simple present videoes , present participle videoing , simple past and past participle videoed )
( British ) To record using a video camera, to videotape
( British ) To record a television program
( transitive , intransitive ) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
See also
Further reading
Anagrams
Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from English video .
Pronunciation
Noun
video n
video
Declension
Declension of video (semisoft neuter )
Further reading
“video ”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
video in Akademický slovník cizích slov , 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English video .
Noun
video c (singular definite videoen , plural indefinite videoer )
video
video recorder
Declension
Further reading
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English video , from Latin videō .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈvidioː/
Hyphenation: vi‧de‧o
Noun
video m (plural video's , diminutive videootje n )
video , movie ( regardless of medium )
Synonyms: film , filmpje
videotape
Synonym: videoband
video , video signal or the visual element of a medium
movie which is on a video tape
Laten we een video kijken! ― Let’s watch a movie (on VHS) !
video recorder
Synonyms: videorecorder , videospeler
Derived terms
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from English video , from the root vide of Latin videō .
Pronunciation
Noun
video (accusative singular videon , plural videoj , accusative plural videojn )
video
Synonym: filmeto
Estonian
Etymology
From English video .
Noun
video (genitive video , partitive videot )
video
Inflection
Finnish
Etymology
From English video , formed from Latin videō .
Pronunciation
Noun
video
video
Synonym: ( in some contexts ) kuva
( informal , usually in the plural ) videocassette recorder , VCR
Synonym: videonauhuri
( informal ) VHS
Synonym: videokasetti
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
Anagrams
Ido
Etymology
Borrowed from Esperanto video , English video , French vidéo , German Video , Italian video , Russian ви́део ( vídeo ) , Spanish video /vídeo .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /viˈde.(j)o/ , /viˈdɛ.(j)ɔ/
Noun
video (plural videi )
( neologism ) video
Synonym: filmo
Indonesian
Etymology
From English video , from the root vide of Latin videō ( “ I see ” ) + -o .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /fiˈde.ɔ/ , ( common ) /fiˈdi.ɔ/
Rhymes: -ɔ
Hyphenation: vi‧de‧o
Noun
video
video
a short film clip, with or without audio (as in a music video , or one of the plethora of user-generated short movies on sites such as YouTube )
motion picture stored on VHS or some other format
Derived terms
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English video .
Pronunciation
Noun
video m (invariable )
video (all senses)
display (screen)
monitor (TV)
References
^ video in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti , Olivetti Media Communication
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *widēō , modeled after Proto-Indo-European *wid-é-t (thematic root aorist, whence Proto-Italic *wīdī > Latin vīdī in the first person singular); ultimately, from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- ( “ to know; see ” ) , a stative verb.
Pronunciation
Verb
videō (present infinitive vidēre , perfect active vīdī , supine vīsum ) ; second conjugation
to see , perceive ; look (at)
Synonyms: intueor , conspicor , tueor , vīsō , spectō , īnspectō , speciō , invīsō
Vidēs ne eum venīre? ― Do you see him coming?
106 BCE – 43 BCE ,
Cicero ,
In Catilinam :
Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam. You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.
29 BCE – 19 BCE ,
Virgil ,
Aeneid 4.409–411 :
Quōsve dabās gemitus, cum lītora fervere lātē prōspicerēs arce ex summā, tōtumque vidērēs miscērī ante oculōs tantīs clāmōribus aequor? Or what laments did you utter, when you were gazing from your high citadel at the wide shore aswarm , and you could see before your eyes the whole sea disturbed by such clamor? (All along the waterfront the Trojan crews are working and shouting to one another as they ready their fleet to leave Carthage.)
to observe , note
Synonyms: observō , servō , cōnspiciō , spectō , cōnspicor , cū̆stōdiō , intueor , animadvertō
to understand , perceive, comprehend
Synonyms: apprehendō , comprehendō , dēprehendō , accipiō , cognōscō , teneō , apīscor , capiō , complector , concipiō , excipiō , exaudiō
106 BCE – 43 BCE ,
Cicero ,
In Catilinam :
O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt ; hic tamen vivit. Vivit? Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives!
to look (at), consider , reflect (upon)
Synonyms: reflectō , ponderō , putō , pendō , perpendō , cōnsīderō , reputō , cōnsulō , cōnsultō , dēlīberō , replicō , dubitō , circumspiciō , trahō , versō
to look out for, see to , care for , provide , make sure
Synonyms: cūrō , accūrō , prōcūrō , cū̆stōdiō , servō , cōnsulō , colō , cōnsultō , caveō , respiciō
8 CE – 12 CE ,
Ovid ,
Sorrows 1.101 :
tantum nē noceās, dum vīs prōdesse, vidētō You be sure only do no harm, as long as you have the power to be helpful
( passive voice ) to be regarded , seem , appear
44 BCE ,
Cicero ,
Laelius de Amicitia 98 :
Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt For as to virtue itself, many want not so much as to be endowed with it as to seem so.
( passive voice , used impersonally) to seem proper or right
Conjugation
1 The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Derived terms
Descendants
Balkan Romance:
Dalmatian:
Italo-Romance:
Padanian:
Emilian: vedèr
Friulian: viodi
Istriot: vidi
Ladin: vedei , veder
Ligurian: vedde , vei
Lombard: vedè , vèje , veir
Piedmontese: vèje , vëzze , veghi , voghi , vëdde , vëge
Romansch: vesair , veser , vaseir , vaser , veir , vzair
Venetian: védar , véder
Northern Gallo-Romance:
Southern Gallo-Romance:
Ibero-Romance:
Insular Romance:
Borrowings:
verb form
Old Galician-Portuguese: vejo
Spanish: veo
References
“video ”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ) A Latin Dictionary , Oxford: Clarendon Press
“video ”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891 ) An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894 ) Latin Phrase-Book , London: Macmillan and Co. the visible world: haec omnia, quae videmus I cannot wait till..: nihil mihi longius est or videtur quam dum or quam ut our generation has seen many victories: nostra aetas multas victorias vidit I have not seen you for five years: quinque anni sunt or sextus annus est, cum te non vidi to live to see the day when..: diem videre, cum... to see clearly, distinctly: cernere et videre aliquid to see with the mind's eye: oculis mentis videre aliquid to fail to see what lies before one: quod ante pedes est or positum est, non videre to be middle-aged (i.e. between thirty and forty): tertiam iam aetatem videre I haven't had a wink of sleep: somnum oculis meis non vidi (Fam. 7. 30) to see something in a dream: in somnis videre aliquid or speciem I dreamed I saw..: in somnis visus (mihi) sum videre to draw from the fountain-head: e fontibus haurire (opp. rivulos consectari or fontes non videre ) to live a life free from all misfortune: nihil calamitatis (in vita) videre according to my opinion: ut mihi quidem videtur we read in history: apud rerum scriptores scriptum videmus, scriptum est to have a general idea of a thing: uno conspectu videre aliquid we read in Plato: apud Platonem scriptum videmus, scriptum est or simply est I flatter myself with the hope..: sperare videor the house threatens to fall in (vid. sect. X. 5, note 'Threaten'... ): domus collapsura, corruitura (esse) videtur to possess great political insight: plus in re publica videre let the consuls take measures for the protection of the state: videant or dent operam consules, ne quid res publica detrimenti capiat (Catil. 1. 2. 4) what is your opinion: quid censes? quid tibi videtur? there is nothing strange in that: neque id mirum est or videri debet (ambiguous) the question has forced itself on my mind: quaerendum esse mihi visum est
Further reading
Latvian
Etymology
From English video .
Noun
video m (invariable )
video
Northern Sami
Etymology
From English video .
Pronunciation
( Kautokeino ) IPA (key ) : /ˈviteo/
Noun
video
video
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template .
Derived terms
Further reading
Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008 ), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages , Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English video .
Noun
video m (definite singular videoen , indefinite plural videoer , definite plural videoene )
a video (video film or tape, video player )
Derived terms
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English video .
Noun
video m (definite singular videoen , indefinite plural videoar , definite plural videoane )
a video (video film or tape, video player )
Derived terms
References
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French video .
Adjective
video m or f or n (indeclinable )
video
Declension
Declension of video (invariable)
singular
plural
masculine
neuter
feminine
masculine
neuter
feminine
nominative/ accusative
indefinite
video
video
video
video
definite
—
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—
—
genitive/ dative
indefinite
video
video
video
video
definite
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Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English video .
Noun
vȋdeo m (Cyrillic spelling ви̑део )
video ( video tape )
video ( motion picture )
Declension
This entry needs an inflection-table template .
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
video (Cyrillic spelling видео )
masculine singular active past participle of videti
Slovak
Etymology
Borrowed from English video .
Pronunciation
Noun
video n (declension pattern of mesto )
video
Declension
Further reading
“video ”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science ] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk , 2024
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English video .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /biˈdeo/
Rhymes: -eo
Syllabification: vi‧de‧o
Noun
video m (plural videos )
( Latin America ) Alternative form of vídeo
( Latin America ) video rental shop
Synonym: videoclub
Derived terms
Further reading
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from English video .
[ 1]
Pronunciation
Noun
video (n class , plural video )
video
References
^ Petzell, Malin (2005 ) “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia , volume 5, →ISSN , archived from the original on 2009-11-29 , page 92 of 85-107: “The English loanword video ‘video’ is used as a class 9 noun by people who are accustomed to English. However, people who are not familiar with foreign languages assign it to class 8 because of its initial vi- sequence thus regarding it as a plural form. ”
Swedish
Etymology
From English video .
Noun
video c
video
videocassette recorder
Synonyms: videobandspelare , videoapparat
Declension
Derived terms
References
Tagalog
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English video . Used due to Tagalog-English code-switching (Taglish ).
Pronunciation
Noun
vídeó (Baybayin spelling ᜊᜒᜇᜒᜌᜓ )
video
Derived terms
Further reading
“video ”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph , Manila, 2018
Turkish
vidyo ( pronunciation spelling )
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English video .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /viˈde.o/ , /ˈvid.jo/
Hyphenation: vi‧de‧o
Noun
video (definite accusative videoyu , plural videolar )
video
videotape
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
Veps
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian ви́део ( vídeo ) .
Noun
video
video
Inflection
References
Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007 ) “видео ”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary ] , Petrozavodsk: Periodika