English
screencast
Coined in 2004.
Formed from screen + -cast
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- ‘to cut off, sever’
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Old Dutch skirm
Middle Dutch scherm
Anglo-Norman escren ‘firescreen’
Middle English scren
English screen
The story
Coined in 2004.
Today it means
noun A digital recording of a computer screen's display.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “screencast”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / screencast