visso

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Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvis.so/
  • Rhymes: -isso
  • Hyphenation: vìs‧so

Participle

visso (feminine vissa, masculine plural vissi, feminine plural visse)

  1. (archaic, literary) Alternative form of vissuto, past participle of vivere
    • 1825, “Libro I [Book 1]”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, page 20, lines 344–347:
      […] Deh! m’ascoltate;
      Chè minor d’anni di me siete entrambi;
      Ed io pur con eroi son visso un tempo
      di voi più prodi […]
      Listen to me! for both of you are younger than me, and I have once lived alongside heroes mightier than you

Anagrams

Swedish

Etymology

From the oblique case of Old Swedish vissa f (“knowledge, confirmation, assurance”, noun), from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz or Proto-Germanic *wissį̄.

Related to viss (“sure”), visserligen (“surely, granted”), visshet (“certainty”), and German wissen (“to know”).

Adverb

visso

  1. (archaic) sure, known

Usage notes

  • This antiquated word is only used in a few expressions: för visso (for sure), more often run together as förvisso, and till yttermera visso (it is further known).

References

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