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English
Etymology
From video + tape, a trademark of media company Ampex.
Pronunciation
Noun
videotape (countable and uncountable, plural videotapes)
- A relatively wide magnetic tape used for recording visual images and sounds (as of a television production) for subsequent playback or broadcasting.
Derived terms
Translations
tape used to record videos
- Arabic: شَرِيط فِيدْيُو m (šarīṭ fīdyū)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܙܘܼܠܚܸܙܘܵܐ m (zulḥizwā)
- Belarusian: відэаплёнка f (videapljónka)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 錄像帶／录像带 (zh) (lùxiàngdài), 錄影帶／录影带 (zh) (lùyǐngdài)
- Czech: videokazeta (cs) f
- Danish: videobånd n
- Dutch: videoband (nl) m
- Esperanto: vidbendo
- Finnish: videonauha (fi)
- French: bande vidéo (fr) f, vidéocassette (fr) f
- Georgian: ვიდეოფირი (videopiri), ვიდეოლენტი (videolenṭi)
- German: Videoband n
- Greek: βιντεοκασέτα (el) f (vinteokaséta)
- Hungarian: videószalag (hu), videókazetta
- Icelandic: myndband n
- Irish: fístéip f, téip físe f
- Italian: videonastro (it) m
- Japanese: ビデオテープ (ja) (bideotēpu)
- Kazakh: бейнетаспа (beinetaspa)
- Korean: 비디오테이프 (ko) (bidioteipeu)
- Kyrgyz: видео тасма (video tasma)
- Latin: taenia magnetoscopica f
- Marathi: व्हिडियो टेप f (vhiḍiyo ṭep)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: videobånd n
- Persian: نوار ویدیو (fa) (navâr-e vidiyo)
- Polish: taśma (pl) f, kaseta wideo (pl) f
- Portuguese: video-tape m, videotape (pt) m, videoteipe (pt) m, fita de vídeo f
- Romanian: casetă video (ro) f
- Russian: видеоплёнка (ru) f (videopljónka), видеоле́нта (ru) f (videolénta)
- Spanish: video (es) m, cinta de video f
- Swahili: kideo
- Tajik: видеонавор (tg) (videonavor)
- Turkish: videoteyp (tr), video (tr)
- Ukrainian: видеоплі́вка f (vydeoplívka), відеоле́нта f (videolénta)
- Uzbek: video tasma
- Vietnamese: băng hình (vi) (繃形), băng vi-đê-ô
- Walloon: cassete videyo (wa) f
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Verb
videotape (third-person singular simple present videotapes, present participle videotaping, simple past and past participle videotaped)
- to make a recording of something on videotape
- (transitive, intransitive) To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
Translations
to make a recording on videotape
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English videotape.
Pronunciation
Noun
videotape m (invariable)
- videotape
References
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌvi.de.oˈtej.pi/ , /ˌvi.d͡ʒi.oˈtej.pi/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˌvi.d͡ʒjoˈtej.pi/
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌvi.de.oˈtej.pi/ , /ˌvi.d͡ʒi.oˈtej.pi/ , (faster pronunciation) /ˌvi.d͡ʒjoˈtej.pi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌvi.de.oˈtej.pe/
Noun
videotape m (plural videotapes)
- (Brazil) Alternative spelling of video-tape