Etymology Explorer › Old French

Where does “visiter” come from?

visiter (Old French) comes from Latin vīsitō, from Latin -ito, from Latin -tō, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

Ancestry of “visiter”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinvīsitō—
2Latin-itoForms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or...
3Latin-tō—
4Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
5Proto-Italic-tus—
6Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

Words derived from “visiter”

  • visit
  • visited
  • unvisited
  • visitest
  • visitable
  • previsit
  • visitability
  • unvisitable
  • visitee
  • undervisited
  • nonvisited
  • overvisited
  • intervisit
  • intravisit
  • viziti
  • vizitadi
  • visiten
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