videocamera

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A form of video camera — A device for recording video footage, often a portable one used by amateurs; also as a fixed installation for surveillance purposes.

OriginEnglish camera ← Latin videō ← Proto-Italic *widēō →
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Meanings

nounvideocamera (plural videocameras)

plural videocameras

  1. alternativeAlternative form of video camera.

    The Committee is actually registered as a business, the authorities said, a thread from the spool of legitimacy to go along with the hard hats, the clipboards and the videocameras.

    2008 March 1, Jim Dwyer, “Outlining an Operation That Preyed on Builders”, in New York Times

Origin

  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. Englishvideocamera

From video- + camera.

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Cite this entry
APA

videocamera. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videocamera

MLA

“videocamera.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videocamera. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “videocamera,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/videocamera.

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