videocassette

See also: vidéocassette and video cassette

English

Alternative forms

• video cassette

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti

Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti

Proto-Italic *widēō

Latin videōbor.

English audioinflu.

English video

English video-

substratebor.?

Proto-Indo-European *kap-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti

Proto-Italic *kapjō

Proto-Italic *kapsos

Latin capsa

Old Northern French casse

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tosder.?

Latin -ittus

Old French -ete

Middle French -ette

French cassettebor.

English cassette

English videocassette

From video- + cassette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌvɪdi.oʊkəˈsɛt/, /ˈvɪdi.oʊkəˌsɛt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

videocassette (plural videocassettes)

1. A cassette containing a blank or prerecorded videotape on which visual images and sounds are recorded for use with a VCR.

Related terms

• videocassette recorder

Translations

cassette containing recorded videotape

• Arabic: كَاسِيت فِيدِيُو m (kāsīt vīdiyō)
• Armenian: տեսաերիզ (hy) (tesaeriz)
• Belarusian: відэакасе́та f (videakasjéta)
• Bulgarian: видеокасе́та f (videokaséta)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錄像帶 / 录像带 (zh) (lùxiàngdài)

• Czech: videokazeta (cs) f
• Danish: videobånd n, videokassette c
• Dutch: videocassette (nl) f
• Esperanto: videokasedo
• Finnish: videokasetti (fi)
• French: vidéocassette (fr) f
• German: Videokassette (de) f
• Greek: βιντεοκασέτα (el) f (vinteokaséta)
• Hungarian: videokazetta (hu)
• Indonesian: videokaset
• Irish: físchaiséad m
• Italian: videocassetta (it) f
• Japanese: ビデオカセット (bideokasetto), ビデオ (ja) (bideo)
• Korean: 비디오 카세트 (bidio kaseteu)
• Latvian: videokasete f
• Lithuanian: video kasetę f
• Macedonian: видеокасе́та f (videokaséta)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: videokassett m

• Persian: کاست ویدیویی (kâset-e vidiyoyi)
• Piedmontese: video-cassiëtta f
• Polish: kaseta wideo (pl) f, wideokaseta f, kaseta magnetowidowa f
• Portuguese: videocassete (pt) f
• Romanian: videocasetă (ro) f
• Russian: видеокассе́та (ru) f (videokasséta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: видеокасѐта f

  Latin: videokasèta (sh) f

• Slovak: videokazeta f
• Slovene: video kaseta f
• Spanish: videocasete (es) f, cinta de vídeo f
• Swedish: videokassett c
• Turkish: video kaset
• Ukrainian: відеокасе́та f (videokaséta)
• Vietnamese: băng hình (vi)

Italian

Noun

videocassette f

1. plural of videocassetta