pellicula
feminine
Latin has no ancient word for a video. Modern Latin writers call a film pellicula, and a video clip can be called the same.
pellicula first meant "a small skin". It came to mean film because early film was a thin flexible strip.
Meaning: film clip (noun)
Which one should you use?
Latin videō is a verb meaning "I see". English took it as the name of the medium.
How do you pronounce it?
pel-LIH-koo-lah
Did you know?
- The English word "video" is simply Latin videō, "I see", chosen in the twentieth century as a partner to "audio", "I hear".
Examples in context
- A die 26 ad 28 Septembris 2015, novem homines ex quinque nationibus in Brunna (Res publica Bohemica) convenerunt, ut discere possent linguam Toki Pona uti. In hoc video in horto botanico universitatis sunt et de eo quod vident loquuntur.From the 26th to the 28th of September 2015, nine people from five countries gathered in Brno (Czech Republic) to have fun together learning and using the Toki Pona language. In this video they are in a university botanical garden and talk about what they see.Tatoeba #11004897 by carlosalberto, translation #11004850 by carlosalberto
- Pelliculam brevem spectāvimus.We watched a short video.
Sources
- Example sentences: Tatoeba CC BY 2.0 FR.
