visa

visa

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English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈviːzə/, /-sə/, Rhymes: -iːzə, -iːsə
  • (Indic, spelling pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈvisaː/, Rhymes: -ɪsə

Noun

visa (plural visas)

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

Derived terms

Related terms

  • visé

Translations

Verb

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

  1. (transitive, dated) To endorse (a passport, etc.).

Anagrams

  • Avis, IVAs, Siva, Vias, avis, vias

Catalan

Verb

visa

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

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /viːsa/, [ˈviːsa]

Noun

visa n

  1. indefinite plural of visum

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvi.zaː/

Noun

visa

  1. plural of visum

Finnish

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

visa

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

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “visa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

Anagrams

  • savi

French

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vi.za/
  • Rhymes: -za

Noun

visa m (plural visas)

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vi.za/

Verb

visa

  1. third-person singular past historic of viser

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • avis, vais

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Alternative forms

  • visum

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • “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.

Latin

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯iː.sa/, [ˈu̯iːs̠ä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvi.sa/, [ˈviːs̬ä]

Noun

vīsa

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of vīsum

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

  • vīsa: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯iː.sa/, [ˈu̯iːs̠ä]
  • vīsa: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvi.sa/, [ˈviːs̬ä]
  • vīsā: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯iː.saː/, [ˈu̯iːs̠äː]
  • vīsā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvi.sa/, [ˈviːs̬ä]

Participle

vīsa

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

Participle

vīsā

  1. ablative feminine singular of vīsus

References

  • "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)

Latvian

Adjective

visa

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

Pronoun

visa

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

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

Noun

visa m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of vise

Noun

visa n

  1. indefinite plural of visum

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

  • vise (e and split infinitives)

Verb

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
Synonyms
  • (most senses): syna/syne
Derived terms
  • vise bort
  • vise døra
  • vise tilbake på
  • vise til rette

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vísa.

Noun

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
Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

visa

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

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

visa n

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

References

  • “visa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈviːˌsa/

Verb

vīsa

  1. to show
  2. to let know

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Swedish: visa

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit विष (viṣa).

Noun

visa n

  1. poison
  2. venom

Declension

Descendants

  • → Thai: วิสา (wí-sǎa)

References

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

Portuguese

Verb

visa

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

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [viˈsa]

Verb

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

  1. to dream

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • visător

Related terms

  • vis

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbisa/ [ˈbi.sa]
  • Rhymes: -isa
  • Syllabification: vi‧sa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French visa, from Latin visa.

Noun

visa f (plural visas)

  1. (Latin America) visa
    Synonym: visado

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

visa

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

Further reading

  • “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], 2024 December 10
  • “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

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

visa

  1. plural of kisa

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈviːˌsa/

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

visa

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

visa c

  1. a song, a tune, particularily one with a simple melody, where the primary focus is the lyrics
Declension
Derived terms
  • ord och inga visor

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

visa

  1. indefinite plural of visum

Etymology 4

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

Verb

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

  1. (sometimes with a particle like upp or fram) to show, to display
  2. to show (provide with information)
  3. to show, to prove
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • visa var skåpet ska stå
Related terms
  • hänvisa
  • visning

See also

  • ambassadör

References

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

Anagrams

  • avis

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