video

Forms

video m or f or n (indeclinable)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from French vidéo and English video, as DEX, the DLR, MDA2 and NODEX give it.^[2][3][4][5] Wiktionary names only the French word.^[1] French took it from the American English adjective, recorded in 1935, which is Latin videō (“I see”), the first person singular of the verb “to see”.^[6]

The colloquial noun meaning “video recorder” is, for the DLR and MDA2, a clipping from Romanian videocasetofon.^[3][4]

Earliest recorded meaning

Dimitrescu's first record is from România liberă of 4 January 1978, on a new system for playing back înregistrări video “video recordings” and sound recordings from vinyl discs.^[7] MDA2 dates the adjective to the third edition of Marcu and Maneca's dictionary of neologisms, of the same year.^[4]

Semantic evolution

The adjective first described the techniques of recording and transmitting images and television signals: producție video “video production” in 1984, tehnica video in 1988, casetă video “videocassette” and jocuri video “video games” in the 1990s.^[3] The noun “video recorder” is recorded in 1993, in a small advertisement selling a sealed video.^[3][4] Volceanov also lists the senses “video cassette” and “a video-watching session” in colloquial speech.^[8]

Timeline

• 1962 – the combining form video- in the Dicționar enciclopedic romîn.^[4]
• 1978 – the adjective in România liberă and in Marcu and Maneca's dictionary of neologisms.^[7][4]
• 1984 – producție video in the magazine Cinema.^[3]
• 1993 – the noun “video recorder” in România liberă.^[3][4]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Relating to the systems for recording and transmitting images: o cameră video, un joc video.^[2][4]

Noun

1. (colloquial) Equipment for recording and playing back images, especially a video recorder; plural videouri.^[2][3]

Related words

• videocasetofon
• videocasetă
• videotecă

Usage notes

DEX has a separate entry for the combining form video- “image”, as in videotecă “video library” and videotelefon “videophone”;^{[2][9][10][11]} DN, DETS and DEXI take it from French and Italian video- and compare Latin video “I see”.^{[2][9][10][11]} It is pronounced with the e and o in separate syllables, vi-de-o.^[2]

References

1. ^ a b Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f DEX (2009), Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române [Explanatory dictionary of the Romanian language], Bucharest: Editura Univers Enciclopedic, p. 1197
3. ^ a b c d e f g Academia Română (1965–2010), Dicționarul limbii române (DLR), serie nouă, tom I–XIX, București: Editura Academiei Române, p. s.v. video
4. ^ a b c d e f g h Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2010), Micul dicționar academic, 2nd ed., 4 vols., București: Univers Enciclopedic Gold, p. 2, 1474
5. ^ Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică „Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” (2002), Noul dicționar explicativ al limbii române, București: Litera Internațional, p. s.v. video
6. ^ Rey, Alain, ed. (1992), Dictionnaire historique de la langue française, Paris: Le Robert, p. s.v. vidéo
7. ^ a b Dimitrescu, Florica (1997), Dicționar de cuvinte recente, 2nd ed., București: Logos (with the 3rd ed., 2013, in CLRE), p. s.v. video
8. ^ Volceanov, George (2007), Dicționar de argou al limbii române, București: Niculescu, p. s.v. video
9. ^ a b Marcu, Florin; Maneca, Constant (1986), Dicționar de neologisme, 3rd ed., București: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, p. s.v. video
10. ^ a b Andrei, Nicolae (1987), Dicționar etimologic de termeni științifici: elemente de compunere greco-latine, București: Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, p. s.v. video
11. ^ a b Dima, Eugenia (coord.) (2007), Dicționar explicativ ilustrat al limbii române, Chișinău: Arc / Gunivas, p. s.v. video