visor

• vizor
• (obsolete) viser, visere, visier, visiere

From Middle English viser, from Anglo-Norman viser and Old French visiere.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪzɚ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)

visor (plural visors)

1. A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.

   Coordinate terms: bevor, buffe

   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 7:

     A close helmet entirely covers the head, face, and neck, having on the front perforations for the admission of air, and slits through which the wearer may see objects around him, this part which is stiled the visor lifts up by means of a pivot over each ear.

2. A mask for the face.
   • 1608, William Shakspeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, act IV, scene IV, line 44:

     No visor does become black villainy
     So well as soft and tender flattery.

3. The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.
4. A rigid adjustable flap on an automobile windshield that can shield the eyes of a driver from direct sunlight or glare.

• sun visor

• vizard

visor (third-person singular simple present visors, present participle visoring, simple past and past participle visored)

1. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a visor.

   Antonym: unvisor

From videō (“to see, look; watch, observe”), via the radical of its supine vīsum +‎ -tor, from Proto-Italic *widēō (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.sor/, [ˈu̯iːs̠ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.sor/, [ˈviːs̬or]

vīsor m (genitive vīsōris); third declension

1. one who sees, looks at, watches; a seer, viewer, watcher
2. one who scouts, explores; one who performs reconnaissance; a scout

Third-declension noun.

vīsor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of vīsō (“to view, look into, stare at; go see, visit”)

• “visor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• visor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1684.
• visor in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3519

visor f

1. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of visa
2. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of vise

• IPA^(key): /biˈsoɾ/ [biˈsoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: vi‧sor

visor m (plural visores)

1. visor

• “visor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

visor

1. indefinite plural of visa