visto

See also: vistò

English

Etymology

From Italian visto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪstəʊ/

Noun

visto (plural vistos)

1. (obsolete) A vista; a prospect.
   • 1744, [Edward Young], “Night the Sixth. The Infidel Reclaim’d. In Two Parts. Containing, the Nature, Proof, and Importance of Immortality. Part the First. […]”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC:

     Through the long visto of a thousand years

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “visto”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• TiVos, Voits, ovist

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvisto/
• Rhymes: -isto

Noun

visto (accusative singular viston, plural vistoj, accusative plural vistojn)

1. whist

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Sami (compare Northern Sami fasti), ultimately from Proto-Samic *vëstē.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋisto/, [ˈʋis̠to̞]
• Rhymes: -isto
• Hyphenation^(key): vis‧to

Adjective

visto (dialectal)

1. disgusting, nasty

Anagrams

• sovit, vitso

Galician

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese visto, from Vulgar Latin *visitus, from Latin vīsus.

Participle

visto (feminine vista, masculine plural vistos, feminine plural vistas)

1. past participle of ver

Etymology 2

Verb

visto

1. first-person singular present indicative of vestir

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.sto/
• Rhymes: -isto
• Hyphenation: vì‧sto

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *vīsitus, from Latin vīsus, or from a form *vīditus.

Participle

visto (feminine vista, masculine plural visti, feminine plural viste)

1. past participle of vedere

Usage notes

• visto is the usual conjugation of vedere, although veduto is also acceptable.

Noun

visto m (plural visti)

1. tick (sign)
2. approval
3. visa (permit to enter a country)

Synonyms

• permesso
• nullaosta
• autorizzazione

Derived terms

• vistare

Etymology 2

Verb

visto

1. first-person singular present indicative of vistare

Anagrams

• stivo, stivò, svito, svitò

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvis.tu/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvis.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈviʃ.tu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvis.to/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈviʃ.tu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈviʃ.tu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbiʃ.tu/

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -istu, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃtu
• Hyphenation: vis‧to

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese visto, from Vulgar Latin *visitus, from Latin vīsus, perfect participle of videō (“to see”).

Noun

visto m (plural vistos)

1. visa (permit to enter and leave a country)

   Precisa de um visto para entrar no Vietname.

   You need a visa to enter Vietnam.

2. signature, stamp (to confirm that something has been checked or verified)

Adjective

visto (feminine vista, masculine plural vistos, feminine plural vistas, not comparable)

1. which has been seen or observed

   Synonyms: observado, olhado, enxergado

Derived terms

• bem visto
• mal visto
• pelo visto
• ser visto que
• visto que

 

Related terms

• ver
• visão
• vistor
• vistoria
• vistoriado
• vistoriador
• vistoriamento
• vistoriar

 

Participle

visto (feminine vista, masculine plural vistos, feminine plural vistas)

1. past participle of ver

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

visto

1. first-person singular present indicative of vestir

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbisto/ [ˈbis.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -isto
• Syllabification: vis‧to

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *visitus, from Latin vīsus.

Adjective

visto (feminine vista, masculine plural vistos, feminine plural vistas)

1. seen
2. obvious, clear
3. exposed, bare
4. known about, talked about, seen around

Derived terms

• a ojos vistos
• bien visto
• mal visto
• más visto que el tebeo
• por lo visto
• visto bueno
• visto que
• visto y no visto

 

Participle

visto (feminine vista, masculine plural vistos, feminine plural vistas)

1. past participle of ver

Related terms

• ver
• vista

 

Etymology 2

Verb

visto

1. first-person singular present indicative of vestir

Further reading

• “visto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10