inviso Latin · revision 32615

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *weyd-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ɪnˈwiː.soː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [iɱˈviː.s̬o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''invīsō''' (present infinitive invīsere, perfect active invīsī, supine invīsum); third conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|in-|vīsō|t2=to go to see]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) De Vaan explains [[m|la|vīsō]] as an old desiderative of [[m|la|videō|t=to see]], from ⟨*weid-s-ō⟩; [[m|la|videō]] goes back to [[ine-pro|*weyd-|t=to see]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus has it first: a character has reason to go and see his home.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is to go to see, visit a person or a place: in Plautus people visit a daughter, a brother, their own house.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) It is also to see, to have sight of: Cicero's translation of Aratus has “you will see the Twins”.^(OLD 2012) Of the gods it is to watch over: a letter to Caesar under Sallust's name says that the life of all mortals is watched over by divine power.^(OLD 2012) Apuleius uses it of looking in a mirror.^(OLD 2012) The TLL notes that the present stem is the usual one, the imperfect from Curtius on, and that the perfect is not certain before Ambrose.^(TLL) Church Latin glosses it to visit, inspect, look after.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of visiting a house and relatives.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of seeing a constellation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius of looking in a mirror.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To go to see, [[m|en|visit]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # To see, look at; to look in a mirror.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Of gods, to watch over, look after.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[viso|alt=vīsō]]

+ * [[video|alt=videō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}