visus

Latin

Etymology

From videō (“I see”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwiː.sus/, [ˈwiː.sʊs]

Noun

vīsus m (genitive vīsūs); fourth declension

1. The action of looking.
2. The power of sight.
3. A vision, sight, apparition.
4. Appearance

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	vīsus	vīsūs
genitive	vīsūs	vīsuum
dative	vīsuī	vīsibus
accusative	vīsum	vīsūs
ablative	vīsū	vīsibus
vocative	vīsus	vīsūs

Descendants

• English: advice
• French: avis, visage
• Istriot: veîso

• Italian: viso, visivo
• Portuguese: aviso, viso
• Spanish: aviso, viso, visiva, visura

Related terms

• videō
• visibilis
• visiō
• vīsum

Participle

vīsus m (feminine vīsa, neuter vīsum); first/second declension

1. having been seen
2. having been looked (at)
3. having been observed
4. having been understood

Inflection

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	vīsus	vīsa	vīsum		vīsī	vīsae	vīsa
genitive	vīsī	vīsae	vīsī		vīsōrum	vīsārum	vīsōrum
dative	vīsō		vīsō		vīsīs
accusative	vīsum	vīsam	vīsum		vīsōs	vīsās	vīsa
ablative	vīsō	vīsā	vīsō		vīsīs
vocative	vīse	vīsa	vīsum		vīsī	vīsae	vīsa

References

• visus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• visus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “visus”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “visus” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I dreamed I saw..: in somnis visus (mihi) sum videre
    
  • (ambiguous) the question has forced itself on my mind: quaerendum esse mihi visum est
    

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Latvian

Adjective

visus

1. accusative plural masculine form of viss

Pronoun

visus

1. accusative plural masculine form of viss