visus
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvisʊs/
- Rhymes: -sʊs, -ʊs, -s
- Hyphenation: vi‧sus
Noun
visus (first-person possessive visusku, second-person possessive visusmu, third-person possessive visusnya)
- (ophthalmology) vision, eyesight, visual perception: the power of sight.
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) IPA(key): /ˈu̯iː.sus/, [ˈu̯iːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvi.sus/, [ˈviːs̬us]
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.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | vīsus | vīsa | vīsum | vīsī | vīsae | vīsa | |
| Genitive | vīsī | vīsae | vīsī | vīsōrum | vīsārum | vīsōrum | |
| Dative | vīsō | 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.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | vīsus | vīsūs |
| Genitive | vīsūs | vīsuum |
| Dative | vīsuī | vīsibus |
| Accusative | vīsum | vīsūs |
| Ablative | vīsū | vīsibus |
| Vocative | vīsus | vīsūs |
Derived 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
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