Where does “viser” come from?
viser (French) comes from French visa, from Latin visa, from Latin visum, from Latin vīsō, from Latin videō, from Proto-Italic widēō, from Proto-Indo-European weyd- — to see.
viser (French): to aim at, target; to issue with a visa
Definitions
- to aim at, target; to issue with a visa
Ancestry of “viser”, step by step
viser traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via French visa
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | visa | a mark or stamp attesting to the performance of... |
| 2 | Latin | visa | nominative plural of vīsum; accusative plural of... |
| 3 | Latin | visum | vision, mental image; nominative neuter singular... |
| 4 | Latin | vīsō | to look at, look into, stare at, view |
| 5 | Latin | videō | to see, perceive; look (at) |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | widēō | see |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |