visa

From 1831, "official signature or endorsement on a passport," from French visa, from Latin charta vīsa (“paper that has been seen”) from feminine perfect passive of Latin vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision, video, vista.

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːzə/, /-sə/, Rhymes: -iːzə, -iːsə

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪsa/, Rhymes: -ɪsə

visa (plural visas)

1. A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.

   I came on a six-month tourist visa.

   • 2009 January 13, Cade Metz, “Sun MySQLers barred from Oz”, in The Register‎^[1], archived from the original on 17 June 2020:

     Several Sun MySQLers have been denied short stay business visas to Australia - yes, Australia - as they attempted to attend a Linux conference in Hobart, Tasmania. According to a blog post from Kaj Arno, vice president in charge of "database community" at Sun Microsystems, several employees - many of whom worked with MySQL - have been barred from entering Oz.

   • 2016, James S. Kessler, Echoes of Empire:

     However, I couldn't continue by land to Georgia, as I would have liked: Russia still maintains its crazy, Sovietesque visa regulations, which makes getting a transit visa extremely difficult and extremely expensive.

   • 2020 June 23, Ushma S. Neill, “The hidden health cost of Trump’s visa freeze”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     The impact would be smaller in the immediate term given that the Trump proclamation allows existing visa holders to remain in the US, but still, at MSK around 100 new scientific and medical trainees this year would not be allowed to commence their research.

• visé

visa (third-person singular simple present visas, present participle visaing, simple past and past participle visaed)

1. (transitive, dated) To endorse (a passport, etc.).
   • 1867, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth:

     "Let me tell you that I am going to spit into that coffee! Yes, and if you do not get me my passport visaed this very minute, I shall take it to Monsignor myself.”

• Avis, IVAs, Siva, Vias, avis, vias

visa

1. inflection of visar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /viːsa/, [ˈviːsa]

visa n

1. indefinite plural of visum

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.zaː/

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visa

1. plural of visum

From Proto-Finnic *visa (“hard?”). Cognate with Estonian visa, Karelian visa and Livonian vizā. The original adjective "hard, difficult, demanding" is now exclusively found in dialects (and some derivations, like visakoivu); the modern sense "quiz" is a backformation of visailla, itself derived from that adjective.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋisɑ/, [ˈʋis̠ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -isɑ
• Syllabification^(key): vi‧sa
• Hyphenation^(key): vi‧sa

visa

1. synonym of visakoivu (“wood obtained from a mutation of the silver birch”)
2. quiz (competition in the answering of questions)

• “visa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

• savi

From Latin visa, neuter plural of Latin visus (“having been seen”).

• IPA^(key): /vi.za/

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• Rhymes: -za

visa m (plural visas)

1. a mark or stamp attesting to the performance of an official action
2. a travel visa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /vi.za/

visa

1. third-person singular past historic of viser

• “visa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• avis, vais

From Dutch visa, from French visa, from Latin visa, short form of charta visa (“paper that has been seen”), plural of visum (“something seen”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvisa/
• Rhymes: -sa, -a
• Hyphenation: vi‧sa

visa (plural visa-visa)

1. visa: A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited

• visum

• “visa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Inflected form of visum (“vision, mental image”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwiː.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈviː.s̬a]

vīsa

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of vīsum

Inflected form of vīsus (“seen, having been seen”), perfect passive participle of videō (“see”).

• vīsa: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwiː.sa]
• vīsa: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈviː.s̬a]
• vīsā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwiː.saː]
• vīsā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈviː.s̬a]

vīsa

1. inflection of vīsus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

vīsā

1. ablative feminine singular of vīsus

• "visa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

visa

1. inflection of viss:
   1. genitive masculine singular
   2. nominative feminine singular

visa

1. inflection of viss:
   1. genitive masculine singular
   2. nominative feminine singular

• IPA^(key): /vʲɪˈs̪ɐ/

visà

1. nominative/instrumental/vocative feminine singular of visas

• IPA^(key): /ˈvʲɪ.s̪ɐ/

vi̇̀sa

1. positive degree neuter singular of visas

• visen (of vise)
• visumer (of visum)

visa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of vise

visa n

1. indefinite plural of visum

From Old Norse vísa, from Proto-Germanic *wīsōną.

• vise (e and split infinitives)

visa (present tense viser, past tense viste, past participle vist, passive infinitive visast, present participle visande, imperative vis)

1. (transitive) to show, point out
2. (transitive) to send away
3. (transitive) to demonstrate, to give proof of
4. (intransitive) to be visible

• (most senses): syna/syne

• vise bort
• vise døra
• vise tilbake på
• vise til rette

From Old Norse vísa.

visa f (definite singular visa, indefinite plural viser or visor, definite plural visene or visone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of vise
2. definite singular of vise

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

visa

1. definite plural of vis n
2. definite singular of vis f

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

visa n

1. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of visum
2. (non-standard since 2012) definite plural of visum

• “visa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse vísa, from Proto-Germanic *wīsōną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːˌsa/

vīsa

1. to show
2. to let know

• Swedish: visa

Inherited from Sanskrit विष (viṣa).

visa n

1. poison
2. venom

• → Thai: วิสา (wí-sǎa)

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “visa”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

visa

1. inflection of visar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Either from vis +‎ -a, or from the rare but attested Late Latin vīsō, vīsāre, from Latin vīsum. Compare Sardinian bizare.

• IPA^(key): [viˈsa]

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a visa (third-person singular present visează, past participle visat) 1st conjugation

1. to dream

• visător

• vis

• IPA^(key): /ˈbisa/ [ˈbi.sa]

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• Rhymes: -isa
• Syllabification: vi‧sa

Borrowed from French visa, from Latin visa.

visa f (plural visas)

1. (Latin America) visa

   Synonym: visado

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

visa

1. inflection of visar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “visa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• “visa”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

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visa

1. plural of kisa

• IPA^(key): /ˈviːˌsa/

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

visa

1. inflection of vis:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

From Old Swedish vīsa, from Old Norse vísa (“strophe, stanza”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ.

visa c

1. a song, a tune, particularly one with a simple melody, where the primary focus is the lyrics

• dryckesvisa
• ord och inga visor
• snapsvisa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

visa

1. indefinite plural of visum

From Old Swedish vīsa, from Old Norse vísa, from Proto-Germanic *wīsōną.

visa (present visar, preterite visade, supine visat, imperative visa)

1. (sometimes with a particle like upp or fram) to show, to display

   Han visade dem sin samling

   He showed them his collection

   Han visade (upp) sin samling för dom

   He showed them his collection

2. to show (provide with information)

   Visa någon vägen

   Show someone the way

3. to show, to prove

   Visa att x > 5

   Show that x > 5

• visa var skåpet ska stå

• hänvisa
• visning

• ambassadör

• visa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• visa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• visa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• avis