video Latin · revision 2982

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=Livius Andronicus|origins=ine-pro *weyd-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈwɪ.de.oː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈviː.de.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''videō''' (present infinitive vidēre, perfect active vīdī, supine vīsum); second conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*wid-ē-|t=to see]], [[inh|ine-pro|*uid-eh₁-|t=to see]], a stative present of the root [[m|ine-pro|*weyd-|t=to see, know]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Wiktionary notes that the LIV takes the stative to be a more recent formation.^(Wiktionary) The perfect [[m|la|vīdī]] could continue either a root aorist or the old perfect that meant “knows”; because of its meaning “I saw”, the LIV and de Vaan prefer the aorist.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) The present [[viso|alt=vīsō]] “to go and look” was a desiderative *weid-s-ō.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ Cognate with [[xum|uirseto|t=seen]] and [[spx|videtas]],^(de Vaan 2008) and further with [[grc|εἶδον|tr=eîdon|t=I saw]], [[sa|वेद|tr=véda|t=knows]], [[got|𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽|tr=witan|t=to know]] and [[sga|ro·fitir|t=knows]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan dates it from Livius Andronicus onwards.^(de Vaan 2008) In Plautus a slave cries ''attat! singulum vestigium video'', “aha, I see a single footprint”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The verb meant to [[m|en|see]] with the eyes and to have the faculty of sight, as when Cato promises that an eye salve will make people “see better”.^(OLD 2012) It also meant to set eyes on, meet or visit someone, to see with the mind's eye, to witness an event, and to live to see or experience something.^(OLD 2012) Cicero used it for foreseeing, and for perceiving with understanding.^(OLD 2012)

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+ From seeing came considering and taking care: ''vide ne'' “see that … not”, and to see to or provide something, as a dinner.^(OLD 2012) The passive ''videri'' meant to seem or be thought, in law to be deemed, and ''visum est'' “it seemed good”, that is, it was resolved.^(OLD 2012) It survives as Italian ''vedere'', French ''voir'' and Romanian ''vedea'', and English took ''view'' from French.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it for seeing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 234–149 BC – Cato uses it of eyesight in his book on farming.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it for foreseeing and for understanding.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-14th century – English ''view'' is first recorded, from Anglo-French.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1935 – English coins ''video'' from the Latin first person, “I see”.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|see]], perceive with the eyes; to have sight.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To set eyes on, meet, visit.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To see in the mind, imagine.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To witness; to live to see, [[m|en|experience]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To [[m|en|foresee]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # To understand, perceive; to find out.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To consider, look at (a question).^(OLD 2012)

+ # To take care, see to it (that); to provide.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(passive)'' To seem, appear; to be thought.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(impersonal passive)'' To seem good, be resolved.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[ēvidēns]]

+ * [[invideō]]

+ * [[pervideō]]

+ * [[praevideō]]

+ * [[prōvideō]]

+ * [[revideō]]

+ * [[vīsibilis]]

+ * [[vīsificus]]

+ * [[vīsiō]]

+ * [[vīsō]]

+ * [[vīsum]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vīsibilitās]]

+ * [[vīsibiliter]]

+ * [[vīsitātiō]]

+ * [[vīsitātor]]

+ * [[vīsitō]]

+ * [[vīsuālis]]

+ * [[vīsuālitās]]

+ * [[en|view]]

+ * [[en|video]]

+ * [[en|vide]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ Döderlein distinguishes ''videre'', seeing in general, from ''cernere'', seeing clearly and distinctly, while ''spectare'' is fixing the eyes on something with interest.^(Döderlein 1874) The imperative ''vide'' “see” is used in English cross-references.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}