English

Laserdisc

From laser + disc, a trademark.

A compound of laser + disc

Latin radius ‘a spoke of a wheel’

Latin radiō

Latin radiatio ‘glittering, shining, radiation’

English radiation

English laser

Ancient Greek δικεῖν ‘to cast’

Ancient Greek δίσκος ‘disk, quoit, platter’

Latin discus ‘a discus, quoit’

French disque

English disc

Today it means

name A home videodisc format of the 1980s, now obsolete.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Laserdisc