Etymology

overscan

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Today it means: The additional area around the four edges of a video image, outside of the safe area, that is not normally seen by the viewer. Full definition →

English scan ← Middle English scanne ← Latin scandō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*skend-
  8. Proto-Italic*skandō
  9. Latinscandō
  10. Middle Englishscanden
  11. Middle Englishscanne
  12. Englishscan
  13. English todayoverscan

From over- + scan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.