Where does “visto” come from?
Visto comes from Italian visto, the past participle of Italian vedere, from Latin videre meaning "to see," derived from Proto-Indo-European weyd- meaning "to see" or "to know."
visto (English): A vista; a prospect
Ancestry of “visto”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Italian | visto | masculine singular past participle of vedere;... |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | visitus | — |
| 3 | Latin | vīsus | — |
| 4 | Proto-Celtic | wissos | known |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | widtós | seen; known |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |