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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

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Latin

Etymology

    Both ultimately from the root *weyd- (to see, know).

    Pronunciation

    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.

    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.

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Insular Romance:
      • Sardinian: bisu
    • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Old French: vis, avis (see there for further descendants)
    • Ibero-Romance:
    • Borrowings:

    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, 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, 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 masculine plural of viss

    Pronoun

    visus

    1. accusative masculine plural of viss

    Lithuanian

    Pronunciation

    Pronoun

    visùs

    1. accusative masculine plural of visas

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