visito Latin · revision 4216

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈwiː.sɪ.toː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈviː.s̬i.to]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vīsitō''' (present infinitive vīsitāre, perfect active vīsitāvī, supine vīsitātum); first conjugation^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a frequentative of [[viso|alt=vīsō]] “to go to see”, from [[video|alt=videō]] “to see”, with the suffix [[m|la|-itō]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''Vīsō'' continues [[itc-pro|*weidsō]], from [[ine-pro|*wéydseti]], from [[ine-pro|*weyd-|t=to see]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it in the sense of seeing someone often: in the Persa a character says “you were dead to me, since I never saw you”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Lewis & Short note that the sense “to see” is ante- and post-classical, and Vitruvius used ''visitata'' of visible signs.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) From Cicero on it meant to visit, to call on a person, and Suetonius uses it of visiting the sick.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913) Ambrose uses it of inspecting.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In the Vulgate and church writers God visits people, to afflict or punish them.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Wiktionary) English ''visit'' is recorded in the early 13th century, often of God coming to see.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it to mean to see often.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of calling on someone.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 390–406 AD – The Vulgate uses it of God afflicting people.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 13th century – English ''visit'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To see often or habitually.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # To [[m|en|visit]], call on a person.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' To inspect.^(Georges 1913)^(Gaffiot 2016)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' Of God, to afflict, punish.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[videō]]

+ * [[vīsō]]

+ * [[en|visit]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}