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visus
visus
Latin
Noun
vīsus m (genitive vīsūs); fourth declension
- The action of looking.
- The power of sight.
- A vision, sight, apparition.
- Appearance
Inflection
Fourth declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vīsus | vīsūs |
| genitive | vīsūs | vīsuum |
| dative | vīsuī | vīsibus |
| accusative | vīsum | vīsūs |
| ablative | vīsū | vīsibus |
| vocative | vīsus | vīsūs |
Descendants
Related terms
Participle
vīsus m (feminine vīsa, neuter vīsum); first/second declension
- having been seen
- having been looked (at)
- having been observed
- having been understood
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | vīsus | vīsa | vīsum | vīsī | vīsae | vīsa | |
| genitive | vīsī | vīsae | vīsī | vīsōrum | vīsārum | vīsōrum | |
| dative | vīsō | vīsō | vīsīs | ||||
| accusative | vīsum | vīsam | vīsum | vīsōs | vīsās | vīsa | |
| ablative | vīsō | vīsā | vīsō | vīsīs | |||
| vocative | vīse | vīsa | vīsum | vīsī | vīsae | vīsa | |
References
- visus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- visus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- VISUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “visus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- I dreamed I saw..: in somnis visus (mihi) sum videre
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(ambiguous) the question has forced itself on my mind: quaerendum esse mihi visum est
- I dreamed I saw..: in somnis visus (mihi) sum videre