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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈwiː.si.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈviː.s̬i.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''vīsiō''' ''f'' (genitive vīsiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[videō]] “to see” with the suffix [[-tiō]], built on the participle stem ⟨vīs-⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) ''Videō'' goes back to [[ine-pro|*weyd-|t=to see]].^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler's first source is Cicero, who speaks of the way we see God.^(Köbler 2010)^(Gaffiot 2016) Köbler dates Cicero 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant the act or faculty of seeing, sight, vision, as in Apuleius, and that which is seen, an appearance real or illusory, a visual image or notion, rendering Greek ''phantasía'', as in Cicero and Gellius.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In law, perhaps only in interpolated passages, it was a case put forward for study.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Christian Latin it meant an apparition, a vision, and ''vīsiō Deī'' or ''vīsiō beātifica'' was the sight of God in heaven.^(Stelten 1995)^(DMLBS) In Medieval Latin it also meant a visit, an inspection, a view to establish legal facts, and an interview.^(Niermeyer 1976)^(DMLBS) It survives in French ''vision'' and Italian ''visione''.^(Wiktionary) [[en|vision]] came through Anglo-French about 1300, first of something seen in a dream or the supernatural.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of seeing God.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of the faculty of sight.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 165 AD – Gellius uses it of mental images.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1300 – English ''vision'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Sight, the act or faculty of seeing.^(OLD 2012)
+ # An appearance; a mental image, notion.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(Christian Latin)'' A [[m|en|vision]], apparition; the sight of God.^(Stelten 1995)^(DMLBS)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An inspection, view.^(Niermeyer 1976)
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[videō]]
+ * [[vīsus]]
+ * [[en|vision]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}