Latin 'video' (I see), coined in 1935 as a parallel to 'audio' — a rare Latin verb form adopted wholesale.
The recording, reproducing, or broadcasting of moving visual images; a recording of such images.
Directly from Latin 'videō' (I see), the first-person singular present indicative active of 'vidēre' (to see, to observe, to understand), from PIE *weyd- (to see, to know). The PIE root *weyd- is among the most philosophically significant in Indo-European: it encodes the ancient equivalence of seeing and knowing, a conceptual link preserved in Greek 'oîda' (I know, literally I have seen, from the perfect of 'horaō'), Sanskrit 'veda' (knowledge, sacred scripture — literally that which is seen or known), and Germanic *witan (to know) → Old English 'witan,' English 'wit,' 'wisdom,' 'wise.' Latin 'vidēre' itself generated 'visible,' 'vision,' 'visit' (to go to see), 'evident
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