Videodisks

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. An optical disc format used for storing video content in both digital and analog formats
2. A media storage solution that allows for playback of films and shows via specially designed disc players
3. A type of disk designed to hold video data, often utilized in home entertainment systems and multimedia applications

Etymology: "Videodisks" is simply the plural of "videodisk," so its story is the story of the singular form: a compound of "video," from Latin "videre" meaning "to see," and "disk," a flat circular object. The two parts were joined in English to name a disc on which moving images are recorded and played back. The spelling "disk" with a k, rather than the "disc" used in many other English words, is the American convention, and it is the form that appears in the plural here. Readers who see "videodisks" will recognize the same plural pattern that applies to any noun ending in a consonant-plus-s sound, simply adding "s" to the singular.