Where does “video” come from?
video (Romanian) comes from French vidéo, from English video, from Latin videō, from Proto-Italic widēō, from Proto-Indo-European weyd- — to see.
Ancestry of “video”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | French | vidéo | video |
| 2 | English | video | Television, television show, movie; A short film... |
| 3 | Latin | videō | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | widēō | see |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |