VIDEO
What does "VIDEO" mean?
The recording, reproducing, or broadcasting of moving visual images.
Meanings
- A recording of moving visual images, or the medium of such recordings. She uploaded a video of the concert.
- The visual component of a broadcast or recording, as opposed to audio. The audio is fine but the video keeps freezing. technical
- To record on video. He videoed the whole graduation ceremony.
- Relating to the recording or broadcasting of moving images. They set up a video call for the meeting.
Did you know?
- 'Video' is simply Latin for 'I see' - it was coined in the 1930s as the seeing counterpart to 'audio', which is Latin for 'I hear'; the two words are a matched grammatical pair.
Word origin
From Latin 'video' meaning 'I see', the first-person singular of 'videre' ('to see'); coined in the 1930s on the model of 'audio' ('I hear'), to name the visual part of broadcast signals.
Remember it
VIDEO = Latin 'I see' (from 'videre'), the same root as 'vision' and 'evident' - what is evident is what you can see.
A little poem
Light caught in a frame,
the moment runs once again-
the dead wave hello.
haiku
Wordplay
- I told the Roman I'd send a video. He said 'I see' - which, to be fair, is exactly what he meant.
What it teaches
We learned to keep light the way we kept words: now no moment has to be only itself, once.
Quick facts
What does VIDEO mean?
The recording, reproducing, or broadcasting of moving visual images.
Is VIDEO a valid word?
Yes — VIDEO is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is VIDEO?
VIDEO has 5 letters and 3 syllables.
Where does VIDEO come from?
From Latin 'video' meaning 'I see', the first-person singular of 'videre' ('to see'); coined in the 1930s on the model of 'audio' ('I hear'), to name the visual part of broadcast signals.
What can VIDEO teach us?
We learned to keep light the way we kept words: now no moment has to be only itself, once.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.