Meaning of video | Babel Free
[ˈwɪ.de.oː]Definitions
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to see, perceive; look (at) conjugation-2
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to observe, note conjugation-2
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to understand, perceive, comprehend conjugation-2
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to look (at), consider, reflect (upon) conjugation-2
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to look out for, see to, care for, provide, make sure conjugation-2
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to be regarded, seem, appear conjugation-2
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to seem proper or right conjugation-2
Equivalents
Examples
“Vidēsne eum venīre?”
Do you see him coming?
“Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.”
You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.
“Quōsve dabās gemitus, cum lītora fervere lātē prōspicerēs arce ex summā, tōtumque vidērēs”
Or what laments did you utter, [Dido,] when you were gazing from your high citadel at the wide shore aswarm [with activity], and you could see before your eyes the whole sea disturbed by such clamor? (All along the waterfront the Trojan crews are working and shouting to one another as they ready their fleet to leave Carthage.)
“O tempora, o mores! Senatus haec intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. Vivit?”
Shame on the age and on its principles! The senate is aware of these things; the consul sees them; and yet this man lives. Lives!
“tantum nē noceās, dum vīs prōdesse, vidētō”
You be sure only [to] do no harm, as long as you have the power to be helpful
“Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt”
For as to virtue itself, many want not so much as to be endowed with it as to seem so.
CEFR level
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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