Zoom Fatigue
Zoom
Zoom. Zoom.
The verb zoom is first seen in 1886. The noun zoom is first seen in 1917. At this time, zoom gained popularity as aviators began to use it. A zoom lens, as in ‘to quickly move closer’, is from 1936.
The word zoom came into being at a time when objects were beginning to move faster and faster; e.g., trains. And later, automobiles and airplanes.
Who was the first person to say “zoom”? Why would they make up a word like this? To use a technical term, zoom is an ‘echoism’; that is, the echoing of a sound heard. I can hear an old biplane zooming by as it takes off. But what would a person in the 1880s have heard that would make them say “zoom”?
Fatigue
The word fatigue has its origins in Latin fati-agos (driving to the point of breakdown), a term comprised of fatis (a word of unknown origin, but related to affatim = sufficiently and to fatisci = to crack, split) and agere (to set in motion, drive, do perform), from the Proto-Indo-European root ag (to drive, draw out or forth, move). From Latin fati-agos comes French fatiguer (to tire) and fatigue (weariness) and by the 1660s the word fatigue came to English meaning that which causes weariness.
Fatigue meaning a feeling of weariness from exertion is from 1719. Fatigue meaning the labors of military persons is from 1776. The term fatigue used to describe metals or other materials under strain is from 1877.
Zoom fatigue
‘Zoom fatigue’ from May 2020; e.g.,
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/zoom-fatigue-is-setting-in-1.5585933
Reference: Online Etymological Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/
Zoom. Zoom.
The verb zoom is first seen in 1886. The noun zoom is first seen in 1917. At this time, zoom gained popularity as aviators began to use it. A zoom lens, as in ‘to quickly move closer’, is from 1936.
The word zoom came into being at a time when objects were beginning to move faster and faster; e.g., trains. And later, automobiles and airplanes.
Who was the first person to say “zoom”? Why would they make up a word like this? To use a technical term, zoom is an ‘echoism’; that is, the echoing of a sound heard. I can hear an old biplane zooming by as it takes off. But what would a person in the 1880s have heard that would make them say “zoom”?
Fatigue
The word fatigue has its origins in Latin fati-agos (driving to the point of breakdown), a term comprised of fatis (a word of unknown origin, but related to affatim = sufficiently and to fatisci = to crack, split) and agere (to set in motion, drive, do perform), from the Proto-Indo-European root ag (to drive, draw out or forth, move). From Latin fati-agos comes French fatiguer (to tire) and fatigue (weariness) and by the 1660s the word fatigue came to English meaning that which causes weariness.
Fatigue meaning a feeling of weariness from exertion is from 1719. Fatigue meaning the labors of military persons is from 1776. The term fatigue used to describe metals or other materials under strain is from 1877.
Zoom fatigue
‘Zoom fatigue’ from May 2020; e.g.,
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/zoom-fatigue-is-setting-in-1.5585933
Reference: Online Etymological Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/
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