visus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
- Participle/Adjective: From the perfect passive participle of videō (“I see”). (Diachronically, from Proto-Italic *weissos.)
- Fourth-declension noun: From Proto-Italic *weissus or *wissus, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydˢtus. Cognate with Old Irish fius (“knowledge”).
Both ultimately from the root *weyd- (“to see, know”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Participle[edit]
vīsus (feminine vīsa, neuter vīsum); first/second-declension participle
- having been seen
- having been looked (at)
- having been observed
- having been understood
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
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 |
Noun[edit]
vīsus m (genitive vīsūs); fourth declension
- The action of looking.
- The power of sight.
- A vision, sight, apparition.
- Appearance
Declension[edit]
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vīsus | vīsūs |
Genitive | vīsūs | vīsuum |
Dative | vīsuī | vīsibus |
Accusative | vīsum | vīsūs |
Ablative | vīsū | vīsibus |
Vocative | vīsus | vīsūs |
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “visus”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “visus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- visus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- visus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- 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
- I dreamed I saw..: in somnis visus (mihi) sum videre
Latvian[edit]
Adjective[edit]
visus
- accusative plural masculine form of viss
Pronoun[edit]
visus
- accusative plural masculine form of viss
Categories:
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyd-
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin terms with Ecclesiastical IPA pronunciation
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin participles
- Latin perfect participles
- Latin first and second declension participles
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin masculine nouns
- Latin fourth declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
- la:Vision
- Latvian non-lemma forms
- Latvian adjective forms
- Latvian pronoun forms