viso

See also: Visó

Catalan

Verb

viso

1. first-person singular present indicative of visar

Galician

Etymology

From Latin vīsus, vīsum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiso̝/

Noun

viso m (plural visos)

1. (archaic) vision, seeing, sight, eyesight
   • c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 281:

     Pero Achilles moy adur podia veer, ca o viso se lle toruaua por la sangre que se lle saya sen mesura

     But Achilles could hardly view, because his sight was clouded because of the blood that exits him without measure

2. (archaic) vantage point
   • 1390, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 806:

     quando chegou aos visos altos que som alende da ponte, deceu cõ hũu daquelles caualeyros que leuaua

     when he arrived to one of those high vantage points that are beyond the bridge, he descended with one of those knights he kept with him

Derived terms

• Viso

Related terms

• visión
• vista

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “viso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “viso”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “viso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “viso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Italian

Etymology

From Latin vīsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.zo/
• Rhymes: -izo
• Hyphenation: vì‧so

Noun

viso m (plural visi, diminutive visétto or visettìno or visìno, augmentative (uncommon) visóne, pejorative visàccio, diminutive-endearing visùccio)

1. face

   Synonyms: faccia, volto

Descendants

• → Norwegian Bokmål: viso

Anagrams

• svio, sviò

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *weidsō, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydseti, an s-desiderative verb from the root *weyd- (“to see”), whence also videō (“to see”) from a stative formation.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.soː/, [ˈu̯iːs̠oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.so/, [ˈviːs̬o]

Verb

vīsō (present infinitive vīsere, perfect active vīsī, supine vīsum); third conjugation

1. to look at, look into, stare at, view

   Synonyms: videō, intueor, tueor, spectō, īnspectō, speciō, īnspiciō, suspiciō, invīsō

2. to go to see, visit, call upon

Conjugation

Conjugation of vīsō (third conjugation)
indicative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	vīsō	vīsis	vīsit	vīsimus	vīsitis	vīsunt
	imperfect	vīsēbam	vīsēbās	vīsēbat	vīsēbāmus	vīsēbātis	vīsēbant
	future	vīsam	vīsēs	vīset	vīsēmus	vīsētis	vīsent
	perfect	vīsī	vīsistī	vīsit	vīsimus	vīsistis	vīsērunt, vīsēre
	pluperfect	vīseram	vīserās	vīserat	vīserāmus	vīserātis	vīserant
	future perfect	vīserō	vīseris	vīserit	vīserimus	vīseritis	vīserint
passive	present	vīsor	vīseris, vīsere	vīsitur	vīsimur	vīsiminī	vīsuntur
	imperfect	vīsēbar	vīsēbāris, vīsēbāre	vīsēbātur	vīsēbāmur	vīsēbāminī	vīsēbantur
	future	vīsar	vīsēris, vīsēre	vīsētur	vīsēmur	vīsēminī	vīsentur
	perfect	vīsus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	vīsus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	vīsus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	vīsam	vīsās	vīsat	vīsāmus	vīsātis	vīsant
	imperfect	vīserem	vīserēs	vīseret	vīserēmus	vīserētis	vīserent
	perfect	vīserim	vīserīs	vīserit	vīserīmus	vīserītis	vīserint
	pluperfect	vīsissem	vīsissēs	vīsisset	vīsissēmus	vīsissētis	vīsissent
passive	present	vīsar	vīsāris, vīsāre	vīsātur	vīsāmur	vīsāminī	vīsantur
	imperfect	vīserer	vīserēris, vīserēre	vīserētur	vīserēmur	vīserēminī	vīserentur
	perfect	vīsus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	vīsus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
active	present	—	vīse	—	—	vīsite	—
	future	—	vīsitō	vīsitō	—	vīsitōte	vīsuntō
passive	present	—	vīsere	—	—	vīsiminī	—
	future	—	vīsitor	vīsitor	—	—	vīsuntor
non-finite forms		active			passive
		present	perfect	future	present	perfect	future
infinitives		vīsere	vīsisse	vīsūrum esse	vīsī	vīsum esse	vīsum īrī
participles		vīsēns	—	vīsūrus	—	vīsus	vīsendus, vīsundus
verbal nouns		gerund				supine
		genitive	dative	accusative	ablative	accusative	ablative
		vīsendī	vīsendō	vīsendum	vīsendō	vīsum	vīsū

Derived terms

• convīsō
• revīsō

Participle

vīsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of vīsus

Descendants

• French: viser
  • → Portuguese: visar
• Romanian: visa
• Sardinian: bisare

References

• “viso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “viso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• viso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian viso (“face”), from Latin vīsus (“looking; sight”), perfect passive participle of videō (“I see, perceive”), from Proto-Italic *widēō (“see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiːsɔ/

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• Rhymes: -iːsɔ
• Hyphenation: vi‧so

Adverb

viso

1. Only used in a viso (“after showing”)

Portuguese

Verb

viso

1. first-person singular present indicative of visar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiso/ [ˈbi.so]
• Rhymes: -iso
• Syllabification: vi‧so

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin vīsus.

Noun

viso m (plural visos)

1. (formal) appearance, look
2. vantage point
3. slip (clothing)
4. gleam, glint

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

viso

1. first-person singular present indicative of visar

Further reading

• “viso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28