Where does “visit” come from?

Visit comes from Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin visito meaning to go to see, derived from the frequentative suffix -ito added to video meaning to see, from the Proto-Indo-European root weyd- meaning to see.

visit (English): To habitually go to to comfort them; To go and...

Definitions

  1. To habitually go to to comfort them; To go and...

Ancestry of “visit”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishvisiten
2Old Frenchvisiter
3Latinvīsitōto see
4Latin-itoForms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or...
5Latin-tōForms here
6Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
7Proto-Italic-tus
8Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “visit

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus