Etymology

videocamera

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English camera ← Latin videō ← Proto-Italic *widēō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*widéh₁yeti
  3. Proto-Italic*widēō
  4. Latinvideō
  5. Englishaudioinflu.
  6. Englishvideo
  7. Englishvideo-
  8. Englishcamera
  9. English todayvideocamera

From video- + camera.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.