visibilis Latin · revision 7982

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Pliny the Elder|origins=la videō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [wiːˈsɪ.bɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [viˈs̬iː.bi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''vīsibilis''' (neuter vīsibile, adverb vīsibiliter); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[videō]] “to see” with the suffix [[-bilis]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citation is from Pliny the Elder, of being able to see.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Pliny 23/24–79 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Pliny the Elder it meant able to see.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Apuleius and Prudentius it meant able to be seen, visible, which Lewis and Short call late Latin for [[aspectābilis]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant visible, outward.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Italian ''visibile'' and French ''visible'', and Old French ''visable'' with the Latin gave [[en|visible]] in the mid-14th century.^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny the Elder uses it of seeing.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 125–175 AD – Apuleius uses it of the visible.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 348/49–c. 413 AD – Prudentius uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * mid-14th century – English ''visible'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Able to see.^(OLD 2012)

+ # [[m|en|Visible]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[vīsibiliter]]

+ * [[vīsibilitās]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[videō]]

+ * [[vīsificus]]

+ * [[vīsiō]]

+ * [[vīsitātiō]]

+ * [[vīsitātor]]

+ * [[vīsitō]]

+ * [[vīsō]]

+ * [[vīsuālis]]

+ * [[vīsuālitās]]

+ * [[vīsum]]

+ * [[en|visible]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}