"video" in seven languages
Meaningvideo
Spanish
/ˈbideo/
masc.borrowed · English video
Latin America says video (biˈdeo), stressed like English.
French
/video/
fem.borrowed · English video
Feminine: une vidéo.
Italian
/ˈvideo/
masc.borrowed · English video
plural: video
Portuguese
/ˈvidʒju/
masc.borrowed · English video
Romanian
/ˈvideo/
neut.borrowed · English video
Invariable; videoclip is just as common.
Catalan
/ˈbideu/
masc.borrowed · English video
English
/ˈvɪdioʊ/
from Latin/French · coined in English from Latin VIDEŌ 'I see'
The Latin ancestor
VIDEŌ‘I see’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A Latin verb form, 'I see', turned into a noun by English and passed on to the sisters. Watch the gender: masculine in Spanish and Italian, feminine in French.
English relatives: vision, visible, evident, provide
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In a sentence
- esHe visto un vídeo.
- frJ'ai regardé une vidéo.
- itHo guardato un video.
- ptVi um vídeo.
- roAm văzut un video.
- caHe vist un vídeo.
- enI watched a video.