Where does “visited” come from?
Visited comes from Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin visito, a frequentative form of videre meaning to see, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European weyd-.
visited (English): past participle of visit; That has received a...
Definitions
- past participle of visit; That has received a...
Ancestry of “visited”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | visit | To habitually go to to comfort them; To go and... |
| 2 | Middle English | visiten | — |
| 3 | Old French | visiter | — |
| 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 |