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Video, this everyday Latin word

2021-11-12T10:21:11.235Z


Jean-Loup Chiflet retraces the course of this word from Latin and which we use in profusion. 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, videoconferenc


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.

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