Filmed

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /fɪlmd/

Definitions

1. To have recorded moments in motion using a camera device
2. To have created a visual storyline by documenting actions on film media
3. Captured moving images using a motion picture camera

Etymology: The verb "filmed" is simply the past tense and past participle of "film," so its history is really the history of that root. The surprising part is that "film" once had nothing to do with cinema or photography. It began in Old English as "filmen," meaning a membrane or thin skin, and it is related to the Old High German "felm," which meant peel or skin. Its ancestry reaches back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to cover" or "skin," the same base that gives the Ancient Greek "pelma," the sole of the foot. The sense of a thin coating on a surface arrived in 1577, and the notion of a covering layer stretched naturally to photography. By 1845, the term described the chemical gel coating photographic plates, and by 1895 it also meant that coating together with the paper or celluloid carrying it. From there, to film something came to mean recording it on that medium, which is how the verb reached its modern sense of documenting actions for a visual story.

Synonyms: recorded, captured, shot, documented, videotaped

Antonyms: unrecorded, unfilmed, unseen, invisible, forgotten