visiter

See also: vîsiter

English

Noun

visiter (plural visiters)

1. Archaic form of visitor.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for visiter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Viteris, revisit

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīsitāre, present active infinitive of vīsitō (“I see, I visit”). Compare the popular form in Old French, visder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.zi.te/

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Verb

visiter

1. to visit (a place)

   Tu dois visiter Paris un jour.

   You must visit Paris one day

Usage notes

Visiter is only used for places. In French they say "rendre visite à" for people, i.e. "Je rends visite à mon père à Paris. = I'm visiting my father in Paris.

Conjugation

Conjugation of visiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

present participle		visitant /vi.zi.tɑ̃/
past participle		visité /vi.zi.te/
infinitive
simple		visiter
compound		avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple		visitant /vi.zi.tɑ̃/
compound		ayant + past participle
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	visite /vi.zit/	visites /vi.zit/	visite /vi.zit/	visitons /vi.zi.tɔ̃/	visitez /vi.zi.te/	visitent /vi.zit/
	imperfect	visitais /vi.zi.tɛ/	visitais /vi.zi.tɛ/	visitait /vi.zi.tɛ/	visitions /vi.zi.tjɔ̃/	visitiez /vi.zi.tje/	visitaient /vi.zi.tɛ/
	past historic2	visitai /vi.zi.te/	visitas /vi.zi.ta/	visita /vi.zi.ta/	visitâmes /vi.zi.tam/	visitâtes /vi.zi.tat/	visitèrent /vi.zi.tɛʁ/
	future	visiterai /vi.zi.tʁe/	visiteras /vi.zi.tʁa/	visitera /vi.zi.tʁa/	visiterons /vi.zi.tʁɔ̃/	visiterez /vi.zi.tʁe/	visiteront /vi.zi.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	visiterais /vi.zi.tʁɛ/	visiterais /vi.zi.tʁɛ/	visiterait /vi.zi.tʁɛ/	visiterions /vi.zi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	visiteriez /vi.zi.tə.ʁje/	visiteraient /vi.zi.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	visite /vi.zit/	visites /vi.zit/	visite /vi.zit/	visitions /vi.zi.tjɔ̃/	visitiez /vi.zi.tje/	visitent /vi.zit/
	imperfect2	visitasse /vi.zi.tas/	visitasses /vi.zi.tas/	visitât /vi.zi.ta/	visitassions /vi.zi.ta.sjɔ̃/	visitassiez /vi.zi.ta.sje/	visitassent /vi.zi.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	visite /vi.zit/	—	visitons /vi.zi.tɔ̃/	visitez /vi.zi.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• visite
• visiteur

Further reading

• “visiter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Verb

vīsiter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of vīsitō

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Middle French

Verb

visiter

1. to visit (a person or a place)

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

   Conjugation of visiter

		simple			compound
infinitive		visiter			avoir visité
gerund		en visitant			Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle
present participle		visitant
past participle		visité
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ie (may be i' before a vowel)	tu	il	nous	vous	ilz, elles
simple tenses	present	visite	visites	visite	visitons	visitez	visitent
	imperfect	visitois, visitoys	visitois, visitoys	visitoit, visitoyt	visitions, visityons	visitiez, visityez	visitoient, visitoyent
	past historic	visita	visitas	visita	visitasmes	visitastes	visiterent
	future	visiterai, visiteray	visiteras	visitera	visiterons	visiterez	visiteront
	conditional	visiterois, visiteroys	visiterois, visiteroys	visiteroit, visiteroyt	visiterions, visiteryons	visiteriez, visiteryez	visiteroient, visiteroyent
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que ie	que tu	qu'il	que nous	que vous	qu'ilz, qu'elles
simple tenses	present	visite	visites	visite	visitons	visitez	visitent
	imperfect	visitasse	visitasses	visitast	visitassions	visitassiez	visitassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	visite	—	visitons	visitez	—