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Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin visum.
Pronunciation
Noun
visum n (singular definite visummet, plural indefinite visa)
- visa
Inflection
Dutch
Etymology
18th century as visa, from French visa, from Latin visa, plural of visum (“something seen”). The form was then relatinised yielding the contemporary singular in -um.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvi.zʏm/
- Hyphenation: vi‧sum
Noun
visum n (plural visa or visums, diminutive visumpje n)
- visa (permit for entering or leaving a country)
Derived terms
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch visum, from Latin visum (“something seen”).
Pronunciation
Noun
visum (plural visum-visum, first-person possessive visumku, second-person possessive visummu, third-person possessive visumnya)
- (rare) visa: a permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.
- Synonym: visa
- (colloquial, medicine, law) short for visum et repertum (“coroner report/professional witness statement”, literally “seen and discovered”).
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Latin
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
vīsum n (genitive vīsī); second declension
- vision, mental image
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
Participle
vīsum
- inflection of vīsus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
Verb
vīsum
- accusative supine of videō
References
- “visum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “visum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) the question has forced itself on my mind: quaerendum esse mihi visum est
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin visum.
Noun
visum n (definite singular visumet, indefinite plural visa or visumer, definite plural visaene or visuma or visumene)
- a visa (permit to visit a certain country)
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin visum.
Noun
visum n (definite singular visumet, indefinite plural visum, definite plural visuma)
- a visa (permit to visit a certain country)
References
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin visum.
Pronunciation
Noun
visum n
- visa
Declension
References