Other forms: videos
Video is moving pictures with sound that you watch on a screen. Watch a video, a video call, record a video.
It covers the recording, the file and the format, and video now means anything from a phone clip to a feature film. Video call and video conference are the standard terms for meeting by screen. Note that video is Latin for I see, coined in the 1930s on the pattern of audio, I hear; and that VHS video tape is now a historical object, though the word outlived it entirely.
1nounvideoMoving pictures with sound watched on a screen.
“We watched a funny video of a cat playing the piano.”
2adjectiverecordingsTo do with such recordings.
“My grandparents love video calls with their grandchildren.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
video is recorded moving pictures.
Also accepted in games: clip
Video is Latin for I see, from videre. It was coined in the 1930s by analogy with audio, I hear, which had been made the same way a few years earlier.
Latin
videō
English, today
video
Borrowed from Latin videō. From the root vide of Latin videō (“to see”) + -o, formed in analogy to audio.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA