video English · revision 2330

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=coinage|attested=1935|origins=la videō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: UK /ˈvɪd.i.əʊ/, US /ˈvɪd.i.oʊ/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It was coined [[der|la|videō|t=I see]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(AHD 2000) the first-person singular present of [[m|la|vidēre|t=to see]],^(Etymonline)^(AHD 2000) as a visual counterpart to [[audio]].^(Etymonline)^(COED 2004)^(SOED 2002) Barnhart suggests its adoption was helped by the ending of [[radio]].^(Barnhart 1988)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ As an adjective, relating to the transmission or reception of television images: 1935.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(MW Collegiate)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As a noun it meant “the picture shown on a television screen” by 1937,^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)^(MW Collegiate) and in American colloquial use “television as a medium” from 1939^(HTOED) or 1941.^(OED 1989) When videotape arrived (the word is from 1953),^(Barnhart 1988) ''video'' came to mean a recording itself, by 1968.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989) The ''videocassette'' is from 1971,^(Barnhart 1988) and the verb “to make a video recording of” is dated 1971 by the OED^(OED 1989) and 1972 by Etymonline.^(Etymonline) ''Video game'' is attested by 1972.^(Etymonline) In 1937 one engineering magazine already spoke of “video transmission” as the moderns' name for television.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1935 – adjective, of television images.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

+ * 1937 – noun, the television picture.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1939 – television as a medium (US).^(HTOED)

+ * 1953 – ''videotape''.^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1958 – a video recorder.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1968 – a video recording.^(Etymonline)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1971 – ''videocassette''; verb.^(Barnhart 1988)^(OED 1989)

+ * 1972 – ''video game''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The visual part of a television [[broadcast]].^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

+ # A recording of moving images, especially on [[videotape]] or in digital form.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

+ # Television as a medium.^(AHD)^(OED 1989)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Relating to televised images.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

+ # Relating to video recordings or the equipment used to make them.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ===Verb===

+ # To make a video recording of.^(OED 1989)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[veejay]]

+ * [[videodisc]]

+ * [[videogenic]]

+ * [[videoland]]

+ * [[videophone]]

+ * [[videotex]]

+ * [[reverse video]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[audio]]

+ * [[audiovisual]]

+ * [[television]]

+ * [[vision]]

+ * [[view]]

+ * [[evident]]

+ * [[provide]]

+ * [[wit]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}