English

Noun

videmus

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[.]

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /wiˈdeː.mus/

Verb

vidēmus

1. first-person plural present active indicative of videō

Descendants

• English: videmus