camcorder

English

Etymology

Blend of camera +‎ recorder. Appears to be a borrowing from Japanese カムコーダー (kamukōdā), an original registered trademark filed for by Sony in 1981.[1]

First cited in English to 1982.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkæmˌkoɹ.dɚ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

camcorder (plural camcorders)

  1. A camera recorder: a portable electronic device for recording images and audio on to a storage device, hence functioning as a camera and a recorder in a single unit.
    • 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings‎, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 173:
      You know where you never see a camcorder? At a funeral. Wouldn't that be fun? Especially if you didn't know any of the people there. Why not go to a stranger's funeral, and bring your camcorder? Have a little fun! Zoom in on the corpse's nose hairs. Then pull back, and pan over to the widow's tears. Get a tight shot of that. Do a montage of people wracked with grief. Then go home and put a laugh track on it! Smoke a joint and show it to your friends. That would be a lot of fun.

Translations

Verb

camcorder (third-person singular simple present camcorders, present participle camcordering, simple past and past participle camcordered)

  1. (rare, transitive) To record using a camcorder.

References
  1. Japan Platform for Patent Information, trademark registration number 1689742, filing date August 21, 1981; entry available online here
  2. “camcorder”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
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