visus
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Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vīsus.
Pronunciation
Noun
visus (uncountable)
- (ophthalmology) vision, eyesight, visual perception: the power of sight.
Related terms
Further reading
- “visus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
- Participle/Adjective: From the perfect passive participle of videō (“I see”). (Diachronically, from Proto-Italic *wissos, from Proto-Indo-European *widtós.)
- Fourth-declension noun: From Proto-Italic *weissus or *wissus, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydˢtus. Cognate with Old Irish fius (“knowledge”).
Both ultimately from the root *weyd- (“to see, know”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯iː.sus/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvi.sus/,
Participle
vīsus (feminine vīsa, neuter vīsum); first/second-declension participle
- having been seen
- having been looked (at)
- having been observed
- having been understood
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | vīsus | vīsa | vīsum | vīsī | vīsae | vīsa | |
| genitive | vīsī | vīsae | vīsī | vīsōrum | vīsārum | vīsōrum | |
| dative | vīsō | vīsae | vīsō | vīsīs | |||
| accusative | vīsum | vīsam | vīsum | vīsōs | vīsās | vīsa | |
| ablative | vīsō | vīsā | vīsō | vīsīs | |||
| vocative | vīse | vīsa | vīsum | vīsī | vīsae | vīsa | |
Noun
vīsus m (genitive vīsūs); fourth declension
- The action of looking.
- The power of sight.
- A vision, sight, apparition.
- Appearance
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vīsus | vīsūs |
| genitive | vīsūs | vīsuum |
| dative | vīsuī | vīsibus |
| accusative | vīsum | vīsūs |
| ablative | vīsū | vīsibus |
| vocative | vīsus | vīsūs |
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
References
- “visus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “visus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- visus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- visus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- I dreamed I saw..: in somnis visus (mihi) sum videre
- (ambiguous) the question has forced itself on my mind: quaerendum esse mihi visum est
- I dreamed I saw..: in somnis visus (mihi) sum videre
Latvian
Adjective
visus
Pronoun
visus