videmus

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A form of video — Transient visual content or media, processed with technology, especially electronic.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

noun
  1. humorouspluralrarepedanticplural of video

    2000, April 10: David Gruar, alt.uk.a-levels (Google group): HELP- CAREER NEEDED, 8:00am I might watch several videmus, certainly. Perhaps before going to some discemus.

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    2000, March 7: David Gruar, alt.uk.a-levels (Google group): revision, 9:00am > If the plural of frustrum is frustra, why isn’t the plural of sums sa? Perhaps it should be sumus. Just as the plural of video should be videmus.

    A bit later, we learn that Muret disagrees both with those who thought that students should start their studies with physics, and with those videmus[.]

    2002, David A. Lines, “Aristotle’s Ethics in the Italian Renaissance (ca. 1300-1650): The Universities and the Problem of Moral Education”, in Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, volume 13, Brill, →ISBN, page 338, →ISBN

Origin

  1. Latinvidēmus“we see, observe”
  2. Englishvidemus

From the Latin vidēmus (“we see, observe”), the first-person plural present active indicative form of videō (“to see, observe”).

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