visum

See also: Visum

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin visum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /viːsɔm/, [ˈviːsɔm]

Noun

visum n (singular definite visummet, plural indefinite visa)

  1. visa

Inflection

Declension of visum
neuter
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative visum visummet visa visaene
genitive visums visummets visas visaenes

Dutch

Etymology

18th century as visa, from French visa, from Latin visa, plural of visum (something seen). The form was then relatinised yielding the contemporary singular in -um.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvi.zʏm/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: vi‧sum

Noun

visum n (plural visa or visums, diminutive visumpje n)

  1. visa (permit for entering or leaving a country)

Derived terms

  • reisvisum
  • visumvrij

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch visum, from Latin visum (something seen).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvisʊm/
  • Rhymes: -sʊm, -ʊm, -m
  • Hyphenation: vi‧sum

Noun

visum (plural visum-visum)

  1. (rare) visa: a permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited
    Synonym: visa
  2. (colloquial, medicine, law) ellipsis of visum et repertum (coroner report/professional witness statement, literally seen and discovered)

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

From vīsō (to see) Proto-Italic *weidsō, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydseti, an s-desiderative verb from the root *weyd- (to see), whence also vīsus (a viewed) a participle.

Pronunciation

Noun

vīsum n (genitive vīsī); second declension

  1. vision, sight, appearance, portent, prodigy,
  2. idea, mental image
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.456:
      Hoc vīsum nūllī, nōn ipsī effāta sorōrī.
      [Dido] spoke to no one [about] this vision, not even to her own sister.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

  • Galician: viso
  • Italian: viso
  • Old French: vis, avis (see there for further descendants)
  • Portuguese: viso
  • Spanish: viso
  • Romanian: vis

Participle

vīsum

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

Verb

vīsum

  1. accusative supine of videō

References

  • visum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • visum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) the question has forced itself on my mind: quaerendum esse mihi visum est

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin visum.

Noun

visum n (definite singular visumet, indefinite plural visa or visumer, definite plural visaene or visuma or visumene)

  1. a visa (permit to visit a certain country)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin visum.

Noun

visum n (definite singular visumet, indefinite plural visum, definite plural visuma)

  1. a visa (permit to visit a certain country)

References

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin visum.

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Noun

visum n

  1. visa

Declension

References