visus

Latin

Etymology

• 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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.sus/, [ˈu̯iːs̠ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.sus/, [ˈviːs̬us]

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.

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

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.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vīsus	vīsūs
Genitive	vīsūs	vīsuum
Dative	vīsuī	vīsibus
Accusative	vīsum	vīsūs
Ablative	vīsū	vīsibus
Vocative	vīsus	vīsūs

Related terms

• videō
• visibilis
• visiō
• vīsum

Descendants

• → English: vision
• French: avis, visage
• Galician: viso
• Istriot: veîso

• Italian: viso, visivo
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: viso
• Portuguese: aviso, viso
• Sardinian: bisu
• Spanish: aviso, viso, visiva, visura

References

• “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
    

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Latvian

Adjective

visus

1. accusative plural masculine form of viss

Pronoun

visus

1. accusative plural masculine form of viss