# viso
## Catalan
### Verb

viso
* first-person singular present indicative of visar

## Galician
### Etymology

From Latin vīsus, vīsum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbiso̝/

### Noun

viso m (plural visos)
* (archaic) vision, seeing, sight, eyesight
** c1350, Kelvin M. Parker (ed.), Historia Troyana. Santiago: Instituto "Padre Sarmiento", page 281:
    Pero Achilles moy adur podia veer, ca o viso se lle toruaua por la sangre que se lle saya sen mesuraBut Achilles could hardly view, because his sight was clouded because of the blood that exits him without measure
* (archaic) vantage point
** 1390, R. Lorenzo, editor, La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla, Ourense: I.E.O.P.F., page 806:quando chegou aos visos altos que som alende da ponte, deceu cõ hũu daquelles caualeyros que leuauawhen he arrived to one of those high vantage points that are beyond the bridge, he descended with one of those knights he kept with him

#### Derived terms

* Viso

#### Related terms

* visión
* vista

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “viso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “viso”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “viso”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “viso”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvi.zo/
* Rhymes: -izo
* Hyphenation: vì‧so

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin vīsus.

#### Noun

viso m (plural visi, diminutive visétto or visettìno or visìno, augmentative (uncommon) visóne, pejorative visàccio, diminutive-endearing visùccio)
* face (all senses)
    Synonyms: faccia, volto
* (archaic) sight, gaze, vision
** (figurative) intellect

##### Descendants

* → Norwegian Bokmål: viso

#### Participle

viso (feminine visa, masculine plural visi, feminine plural vise)
* (archaic, rare) past participle of vedere

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin vīsum. Compare the doublet avviso.

#### Noun

viso m (plural visi) (archaic)
* notice
* warning, reminder
* opinion

### References

* ↑ viso in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* svio, sviò

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *weidsō, from Proto-Indo-European *wéydseti, an s-desiderative verb from the root *weyd- (“to see”), whence also videō (“to see”) from a stative formation.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈu̯iː.soː/, [ˈu̯iːs̠oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈvi.so/, [ˈviːs̬o]

### Verb

vīsō (present infinitive vīsere, perfect active vīsī, supine vīsum); third conjugation
* to look at, look into, stare at, view
    Synonyms: videō, intueor, tueor, spectō, īnspectō, speciō, īnspiciō, suspiciō, invīsō
* to go to see, visit, call upon

#### Derived terms

* convīsō
* revīsō

### Participle

vīsō
* dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of vīsus

#### Descendants

* French: viser
** → Portuguese: visar
* Italian: visare
* Romanian: visa
* Sardinian: bisare

### References

* “viso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “viso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* viso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Italian viso (“face”), from Latin vīsus (“looking; sight”), perfect passive participle of videō (“I see, perceive”), from Proto-Italic *widēō (“see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʋiːsɔ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iːsɔ
* Hyphenation: vi‧so

### Adverb

viso
* Only used in a viso (“after showing”)

## Portuguese
### Verb

viso
* first-person singular present indicative of visar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbiso/ [ˈbi.so]
* Rhymes: -iso
* Syllabification: vi‧so

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin vīsus.

#### Noun

viso m (plural visos)
* (formal) appearance, look
* vantage point
* slip (clothing)
* gleam, glint

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

viso
* first-person singular present indicative of visar

### Further reading

* “viso”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10