Where does “visitant” come from?
Visitant comes from French visitant, from French visiter, from Latin visitare, frequentative of Latin visito, derived from Latin video meaning to see, from Proto-Indo-European weyd-.
visitant (English): One who visits; a guest; a visitor; A spectre or...
Definitions
- One who visits; a guest; a visitor; A spectre or...
Ancestry of “visitant”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | visitant | present participle of visiter |
| 2 | French | visiter | to visit |
| 3 | Middle French | visiter | to visit |
| 4 | Latin | vīsitō | to see |
| 5 | Latin | -ito | Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or... |
| 6 | Latin | -tō | Forms here |
| 7 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |