visus

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vīsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvisʊs/
• Rhymes: -sʊs, -ʊs, -s
• Hyphenation: vi‧sus

Noun

visus (plural visus-visus)

1. (ophthalmology) vision, eyesight, visual perception: the power of sight

Related terms

• video
• visa
• visum

Further reading

• “visus”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Latin

Etymology

• Participle/Adjective: From the perfect passive participle of videō (“I see”). (Diachronically, from Proto-Italic *wissos, from Proto-Indo-European *widtós.)
• 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwiː.sʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈviː.s̬us]

Participle

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

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

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	vīsus	vīsa	vīsum		vīsī	vīsae	vīsa
genitive	vīsī	vīsae	vīsī		vīsōrum	vīsārum	vīsōrum
dative	vīsō	vīsae	vīsō		vīsīs
accusative	vīsum	vīsam	vīsum		vīsōs	vīsās	vīsa
ablative	vīsō	vīsā	vīsō		vīsīs
vocative	vīse	vīsa	vīsum		vīsī	vīsae	vīsa

Noun

vīsus m (genitive vīsūs); fourth declension

1. the action of looking
2. the power of sight
3. a vision, sight, apparition
4. appearance

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vīsus	vīsūs
genitive	vīsūs	vīsuum
dative	vīsuī	vīsibus
accusative	vīsum	vīsūs
ablative	vīsū	vīsibus
vocative	vīsus	vīsūs

Derived terms

• *vīsāticum

Related terms

• videō
• visibilis
• visiō
• vīsum

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: bisu
• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Istriot: veîso, vèiso
  • Italian: viso
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: viso
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: vis, ⇒ avis (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: viso
  • Portuguese: viso
  • Spanish: viso
• Borrowings:
  • → Indonesian: visus

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
• "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
    

Latvian

Adjective

visus

1. accusative masculine plural of viss

Pronoun

visus

1. accusative masculine plural of viss

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vʲɪˈs̪ʊs̪/

Pronoun

visùs

1. accusative masculine plural of visas