camcorder

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

First cited in English to 1981.[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæmˌkoɹ.dɚ/

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, Carlin, George, Brain Droppings‎, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, LCCN 96-52373, OCLC 36084460, OL 26335012M, 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.

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

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

• “camcorder”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.