A blind Roman citizen regains his sight… What does he say?
“
Io!
Video !
»(«
Youpi! I see!
») Of the verb
videre
in the first person singular present of the indicative.
Read alsoAgenda, this Latin word for everyday life
Since our video borrowing from Anglo-American, resulting, as we have just seen, from Latin, we have had a profusion of video!
Terms now obsolete
Video libraries, videoconferences, videocassettes, videotex, videophonies, videodiscs, videoclips, not to mention videotapes, video games and video clubs.
Read alsoThese Latin words that we use without knowing it
Some of these terms are now obsolete, others are gaining popularity such as
video mapping
and
video
surveillance.
From
Give Us Our Daily Latin
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