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
- To habitually go to to comfort them; To go and...
Ancestry of “visit”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Middle English | visiten | — |
| 2 | Old French | visiter | — |
| 3 | Latin | vīsitō | — |
| 4 | Latin | -ito | Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or... |
| 5 | Latin | -tō | — |
| 6 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |
Words derived from “visit”