view [ME] View goes back to Latin videre ‘to see’. Review [LME], first recorded as a noun denoting a formal inspection of military or naval forces, is literally a re-viewing. Video [1930s] is the Latin for ‘I see’ just as audio is the Latin for ‘I hear’. Visa [M19th], evidence that your right to enter a country has been checked, is a shortening of Latin charta visa literally ‘seen paper’.