viso

viso

1. first-person singular present indicative of visar

From Latin vīsus, vīsum.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiso̝/

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

• Viso

• visión
• vista

• 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

From Latin vīsus.

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

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

1. face

   Synonyms: faccia, volto

• → Norwegian Bokmål: viso

• svio, sviò

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.

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

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

• convīsō
• revīsō

vīsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of vīsus

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

• “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.

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiːsɔ/

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• Rhymes: -iːsɔ
• Hyphenation: vi‧so

viso

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

viso

1. first-person singular present indicative of visar

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

Inherited from Latin vīsus.

viso m (plural visos)

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

viso

1. first-person singular present indicative of visar

• “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