visne

See also: visné, višně, and vişne

English

Etymology

From Old French visné, veisiné, visnet (“neighborhood”), from Vulgar Latin *vīcīnātus, from Latin vīcīnus (“neighboring, a neighbor”). See vicinity.

Noun

visne (plural visnes)

  1. (law, obsolete or historical) neighborhood; vicinity; venue

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “visne”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse visna (“to dry up, wither”).

Verb

visne (imperative visn, infinitive at visne, present tense visner, past tense visnede, perfect tense visnet)

  1. to wilt, to wither

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /²ʋɪs.nɑ/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse visna.

Alternative forms

Verb

visne (present tense visnar, past tense visna, past participle visna, passive infinitive visnast, present participle visnande, imperative visne/visn)

  1. (intransitive) to wither, dry up

Adjective

visne

  1. inflection of visen:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural
  2. inflection of vissen:
    1. definite singular
    2. plural

References

Anagrams
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