video
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[edit] English
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Borrowed from Latin videō (“‘I see’”).
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video (plural videos)
- Television, television show, movie.
- motion picture stored on VHS or some other format.
- (dated) VHS.
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- Video is used in contrast with audio, which is sound only.
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- Hawaiian: wikiō
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to video (third-person singular simple present videoes, present participle videoing, simple past and past participle videoed)
- To record using video equipment
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[edit] Croatian
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video m. sg.
- video (video tape)
- video (motion picture)
[edit] Dutch
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From English video.
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- IPA: /video/
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video m. (plural video's, diminutive videootje)
- A video tape.
- A movie which is on a video tape.
- Laten we een video kijken!
- “Let’s watch a movie (on VHS)!”
- Laten we een video kijken!
- A video recorder.
[edit] Italian
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video m. inv.
- video (all senses)
[edit] Latin
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From Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“‘to know; see’”). Cognates include Ancient Greek εἴδω (eidō), Sanskrit वेत्ति (vétti), Old English witan (English wit), German wissen. Compare vitrum (“‘glass’”).
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present active videō, present infinitive vidēre, perfect active vīdī, supine vīsum.
- I see, look (at), observe.
- Catiline Orations by Cicero (Latin text and English translations may be found here)
- Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.
- You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.
- Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.
- Catiline Orations by Cicero (Latin text and English translations may be found here)
- I understand.
- Catiline Orations by Cicero (Latin text and English translations may be found here)
- O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?
- Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives!
- O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?
- Catiline Orations by Cicero (Latin text and English translations may be found here)
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[edit] Spanish
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video m. (plural videos)
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- (Latin America) video tape.
- (Latin America) movie that is stored on VHS tape or DVD.
- (Latin America) video store.
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- vídeo (Spain)

