Where does “visa” come from?
visa (Spanish) 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.
visa (Spanish): visa
Ancestry of “visa”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 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 | — |
| 5 | Latin | videō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | widēō | see |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | weyd- | to see |