Etymology

video

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Today it means: Transient visual content or media, processed with technology, especially electronic. Full definition →

English audioinflu. ← Latin videō ← Proto-Italic *widēō
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*widéh₁yeti
  3. Proto-Italic*widēō
  4. Latinvideō
  5. Englishaudioinflu.
  6. English todayvideo

From the root vide of Latin videō (“to see”) + -o, formed in analogy to audio.

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