• Videmus

    Origin

    From the Latin vidēmus ("we see, observe"), the first-person plural present active indicative form of videō ("I see, observe").

    Noun

    plural

    1. (rare, humorously pedantic) Plural of video
      • 1987: A. van Dantzig and Adam Jones (editor), Fontes Historiae Africanae: Series Varia, volume 5: Pieter de Marees, “Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602)”,
    page 29 (illustrated edition; Oxford University Press for The British Academy; ISBN 019726056X, 9780197260562)
      • On the whole, their faces are not unbecoming, for they are proportionate to their bodies and therefore adorn their Videmus and appearance.
      • 2000, March 7:
    David Gruar, ''alt.uk.a-levels (Google group): revision'', 9:00am
      • > If the plural of frustrum is frustra, why isn’t the plural of sums sa?
    Perhaps it should be sumus. Just as the plural of video should be videmus.
      • 2000, April 10:
    David Gruar, ''alt.uk.a-levels (Google group): HELP- CAREER NEEDED'', 8:00am
      • I might watch several videmus, certainly. Perhaps before going to some discemus.
      • 2002: David A. Lines, Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, volume 13, “Aristotle’s Ethics in the Italian Renaissance (ca. 1300–1650): The Universities and the Problem of Moral Education”,
    page 338 (Brill; ISBN 9004120858, 9789004120853)
      • A bit later, we learn that Muret disagrees both with those who thought that students should start their studies with physics, and with those videmus.
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