Where does “visitation” come from?
Visitation comes from Old French visitacioun and visitacion, from Latin visitatio, a noun formation using the suffix -tio derived from Proto-Indo-European -ti-, ultimately from the root weyd- meaning to see.
visitation (English): The act of visiting, or an instance of being...
Definitions
- The act of visiting, or an instance of being...
Ancestry of “visitation”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anglo-Norman | visitacioun | — |
| 2 | Old French | visitacion | — |
| 3 | Latin | visitatio | sight, appearance; visit; visitation, punishment |
| 4 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 5 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 6 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 7 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 8 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 9 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 10 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 11 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |