visione Italian · revision 39216

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1310, Zucchero Bencivenni|origins=la videō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /viˈzjo.ne/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''visione''' ''f'' (plural visioni)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|vīsiō|t=sight; appearance, vision]], a learned word.^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Wiktionary) The Latin noun was formed on [[m|la|vīsus]], the past participle of [[m|la|videō|t=to see]].^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Gabrielli 2020) DELI and DEI note that Latin philosophical language, from Cicero on, used it to render [[grc|φαντασία|tr=phantasía|t=appearance, imagination]] and [[m|grc|φάντασμα|tr=phántasma|t=apparition]].^(DELI 1999)^(DEI|4068) The same learned word is [[fr|vision]] (12th century) and [[es|visión]], and the only inherited outcome is Portuguese [[m|pt|avejão|t=spectre]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(DEI|4068)^(REW 1935)

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+ The verb goes back to [[itc-pro|*widēō]] and [[ine-pro|*weyd-|t=to see, know]], which also gave [[grc|οἶδα|tr=oîda|t=I know]] and [[cu|видѣти|tr=viděti|t=to see]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ DELI's first record is Zucchero Bencivenni in 1310, for a dream or a fancy.^(DELI 1999) Francesco da Buti later defined it: ''Visione è quando l'uomo nel sonno vede chiaramente e manifestamente quello che poi gli avviene'' “a vision is when a man in his sleep sees clearly and plainly what will later happen to him”.^(DELI 1999) Dante uses it, before 1321, for the appearance of a person or reality of the divine world.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Cacciaguida tells Dante ''tutta tua vision fa manifesta'' “make your whole vision known” (''Paradiso'' 17.128), and Boccaccio's ''Decameron'' (9.8) distinguishes a mere dream from a true ''visione''.^(GDLI) In Giovanni Villani's chronicle the word is used for the beatific vision of the souls after death, the subject of a controversy under Pope John XXII.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)^(DELI 1999) The medieval ''visione'' was also a literary genre describing the other world.^(GRADIT 2003)

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+ The sense of sight as a perceptual process is recorded in Florio's dictionary (1598).^(DELI 1999) From the 19th century the word also meant an idea or overall picture (1810) and a striking scene (1847).^(DELI 1999) The cinema adopted it early in the 20th century for an image, an episode and a film, and ''prima visione'' is a film's first run;^(DELI 1999)^(Zingarelli 2010) ''visionare'' “to view a film” (1923) arose probably in film censorship.^(DELI 1999)^(Zingarelli 2010) In bureaucratic language ''prendere visione'' means to examine a document.^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)^(Zingarelli 2010) Marketing language has recently used it for English ''vision''.^(GDLI)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1310 – Zucchero Bencivenni uses ''visione'' for a dream.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1321 – Dante uses it for a divine apparition.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 14th century – Giovanni Villani uses it for the act of seeing.^(DELI 1999)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

+ * 1598 – Florio records the sense of sight.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1729 – Anton Maria Salvini uses ''visionario'' “visionary”.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1810 – The sense “idea, overall picture” is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1847 – The sense “striking scene” is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1923 – ''Visionare'' is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The act of seeing or examining something: ''Il documento è a disposizione per la visione.'' ''Prendere visione'' is to examine.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(physiology)'' [[m|en|vision]], [[m|en|sight]]: the perception of light stimuli, the faculty of seeing.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

+ # ''(figurative)'' A view, idea or outlook: ''Ha una visione molto pessimistica del lavoro.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # A striking sight or scene: ''Il porto al tramonto era una visione.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Gabrielli 2020)

+ # ''(cinema)'' The showing of a film to the public or to a few people: ''un film in prima visione''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(religion)'' A supernatural vision or apparition: ''le visioni dei mistici''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(literature)'' A medieval work describing the other world or miraculous apparitions.^(GRADIT 2003)

+ # A [[m|en|hallucination]], dream or fantasy; ironically, a groundless idea: ''Hai le visioni!''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Gabrielli 2020)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[visionare]]

+ * [[visionario]]

+ * [[retrovisione]]

+ * [[ipovisione]]

+ * [[intravisione]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[previsione]]

+ * [[televisione]]

+ * [[vedere]]

+ * [[visivo]]

+ * [[vista]]

+ * [[revisione]]

+ * [[supervisione]]

+ * [[la|visio]]

+ * [[fr|vision]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}