video Italian · revision 38146

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=borrowing|attested=1953, Corriere della Sera|origins=la videō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈvi.de.o/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''video''' ''m'' (invariable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|en|video]], which is the Latin verb form [[m|la|videō|t=I see]] made into a noun.^(Wiktionary)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Treccani 2011)^(GDLI) Bruno Migliorini explained it as a substantivized first person singular of “vidēre”, chosen on the model of [[audio]] “I hear”, which already existed as the first part of words like [[audiogramma]]; he dated it to the United States in early 1948 and to Italy just after.^(DELI 1999) Later research found the English noun, in contrast with “audio”, from 1937, and as an adjective from 1935.^(DELI 1999)

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+ Nocentini instead treats it as an Italian formation, the prefix [[video-]] used alone with the second part of a compound left out, and Zingarelli as the English prefix made into a noun.^(Nocentini 2010)^(Zingarelli 2010) The Latin verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European [[m|ine-pro|*u̯id-eh₁-|t=to see]], like [[grc|οἶδα|tr=oîda|t=I know]] and [[got|𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍄|tr=wait|t=I know]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first record is a letter in the ''Corriere della Sera'' of 22 November 1953, for the picture part of television: “l'audio e il video, come mi dicono che si chiamano” (the audio and the video, as I am told they are called).^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ By 1958 ''video'' was also the television screen, and, from there television itself: ''stare davanti al video''.^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto–Oli 2026) The adjective, for anything to do with the transmission of images (''segnale video''), is recorded in 1961.^(DELI 1999)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ With computing the word came to mean the screen of a terminal or computer, and, from the 1980s it was used as a clipped form of ''videoclip'', ''videotape'' and ''videocassetta'': ''L'Espresso'' wrote in 1983 that nearly every musician wanted a video to launch a record.^(GRADIT 2003)^(GDLI|21, 854) Today it is above all a short film, especially one watched online.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1935 – English ''video'' is recorded as an adjective.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1937 – English ''video'' is used in contrast with ''audio''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1953 – The ''Corriere della Sera'' uses ''video'' for the picture part of television.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1958 – ''La Stampa'' uses it for the television screen.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1961 – The adjectival use is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1983 – ''L'Espresso'' uses ''video'' for a music videoclip.^(GDLI|21, 854)

+ * 1987 – ''Videata'', a screenful of data, is recorded.^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The picture part of a television signal or system, as opposed to ''audio''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # A [[m|en|screen]] of a television, computer or terminal; television itself: ''Passa le serate incollato al video.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|video]]: a short film, a music videoclip, a videocassette: ''Ha caricato un video del concerto.''^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Treccani 2011)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Relating to the recording and transmission of images: ''segnale video'', ''scheda video''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[videata]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[audio]]

+ * [[vedere]]

+ * [[videoclip]]

+ * [[videoterminale]]

+ * [[en|video]]

+ * [[la|videō]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Video'' is invariable: ''un video'', ''due video''.^(Wiktionary)^(GRADIT 2003) Sabatini–Coletti note that it is sometimes used in the feminine for a videocassette.^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}