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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?nd/
• Rhymes: -a?nd

Etymology 1

From Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-Germanic *pund? (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pond? (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *pend-, *spend- (“to pull, stretch”). Cognate with Dutch pond, German Pfund, Swedish pund. Doublet of pood.

Noun

pound (plural pounds) (sometimes pound after numerals)

1. A unit of mass equal to 16 avoirdupois ounces (= 453.592 37 g). Today this value is the most common meaning of "pound" as a unit of weight.

   Synonym: lb

2. A unit of mass equal to 12 troy ounces (? 373.242 g). Today, this is a common unit of weight when measuring precious metals, and is little used elsewhere.

   Synonym: lb t

3. (US) The symbol # (octothorpe, hash)

   Synonyms: hash, sharp

4. The unit of currency used in the United Kingdom and its dependencies. It is divided into 100 pence.

   Synonyms: £, pound sterling, GBP, quid, nicker

5. Any of various units of currency used in Egypt and Lebanon, and formerly in the Republic of Ireland, Cyprus and Israel.

   Synonym: punt

6. Any of various units of currency formerly used in the United States.
7. Abbreviation for pound-force, a unit of force/weight. Using this abbreviation to describe pound-force is inaccurate and unscientific.

Usage notes

• Internationally, the "pound" has most commonly referred to the UK pound, £, (pound sterling). The other currencies were usually distinguished in some way, e.g., the "Irish pound" or the "punt".
• In the vicinity of each other country calling its currency the pound among English speakers the local currency would be the "pound", with all others distinguished, e.g., the "British pound", the "Egyptian pound" etc.
• The general plural of "pound" has usually been "pounds" (at least since Chaucer), but the continuing use of the Old English genitive or neuter "pound" as the plural after numerals (for both currency and weight) is common in some regions. It can be considered correct, or colloquial, depending on region.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Pound (the unit of mass) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pound (the UK unit of currency) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• crown, farthing, florin, guinea, penny, pence, shilling, sovereign, sterling

Etymology 2

From Middle English pounde, ponde, pund, from Old English pund (“an enclosure”), related to Old English pyndan (“to enclose, shut up, dam, impound”). Compare also Old English pynd (“a cistern, lake”).

Noun

pound (plural pounds)

1. A place for the detention of stray or wandering animals.

   Synonym: animal shelter
2. (metonymically) The people who work for the pound.
3. (Britain) A place for the detention of automobiles that have been illegally parked, abandoned, etc. Short form of impound.

   Synonyms: (UK) car pound, (US) impound lot, (US) impound
4. A section of a canal between two adjacent locks.

   Synonym: reach

5. A kind of fishing net, having a large enclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
6. (Newfoundland) a division inside a fishing stage where cod is cured in salt brine

   Synonym: bulk

Usage notes

• Manx English uses this word uncountably.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

pound (third-person singular simple present pounds, present participle pounding, simple past and past participle pounded)

1. To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound.
   • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     When I short haue shorne my sowce face
     & swigg’d my horny barrell,
     In an oaken Inne I pound my skin
     as a suite of guilt apparrell

Etymology 3

From an alteration of earlier poun, pown, from Middle English pounen, from Old English p?nian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush”), from Proto-Germanic *p?n?n? (“to break to pieces, pulverise”). Related to Saterland Frisian Pün (“debris, fragments”), Dutch puin (“debris, fragments, rubbish”), Low German pun (“fragments”). Perhaps influenced by Etymology 2 Middle English *pound, pond, from Old English *pund, pynd, in relation to the hollow mortar for pounding with the pestle.

Alternative forms

• poun, pown (obsolete or dialectal)

Verb

pound (third-person singular simple present pounds, present participle pounding, simple past and past participle pounded)

1. (transitive) To strike hard, usually repeatedly.

   Synonyms: hammer, pelt; see also Thesaurus:hit
2. (transitive) To crush to pieces; to pulverize.

   Synonyms: pulverate, triturate
3. (transitive, slang) To eat or drink very quickly.

   Synonyms: bolt, down, chug; see also Thesaurus:eat, Thesaurus:drink
4. (transitive, baseball, slang) To pitch consistently to a certain location.

5. (intransitive, of a body part, generally heart, blood, or head) To beat strongly or throb.
6. (transitive, vulgar, slang) To penetrate sexually, with vigour.

   Synonyms: drill, get up in, nail, poke; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
7. To advance heavily with measured steps.
8. (engineering) To make a jarring noise, as when running.

9. (slang, dated) To wager a pound on.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• bang

Noun

pound (plural pounds)

1. A hard blow.

   Synonym: pounding

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pounde, pund, punde, powund

Etymology

From Old English pund, in turn from Proto-Germanic *pund?, from Latin pond?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu?nd/, /pund/

Noun

pound (plural poundes or pounden or pound)

1. A measurement for weight, most notably the Tower pound, merchant's pound or pound avoirdupois, or a weight of said measurement.
2. A pound or other silver coin (including ancient coins), weighing one Tower pound of silver.
3. Money or coinage in general, especially a great amount of it.

Descendants

• English: pound
• Scots: pund, poond

References

• “p?und(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-02-22.

English

Etymology

From 1831, "official signature or endorsement on a passport," from French visa, from Latin charta visa (meaning "paper that has been seen") from feminine perfect passive of Latin videre ("to see").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi?.z?/, /?vi?.s?/
• Rhymes: -i?z?, -i?s?

Noun

visa (plural visas)

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

Related terms

• student visa
• tourist visa
• transit visa
• visaless
• working-holiday visa

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

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi?sa/, [?vi?sa]

Noun

visa n

1. indefinite plural of visum

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi.za?/

Noun

visa

1. Plural form of visum

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *visa (“hard?”). Cognate with Estonian visa, Karelian visa and Livonian viz?. 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): /??is?/, [??is??]
• Rhymes: -is?
• Syllabification: vi?sa

Noun

visa

1. Synonym of visakoivu
2. quiz (competition in the answering of questions)

Declension

Derived terms

• visailu
• visainen

Compounds

• tietovisa
• visakoivu

Anagrams

• savi

French

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.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 main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.za/

Verb

visa

1. third-person singular past historic of viser

Anagrams

• avis, vais

Indonesian

Noun

visa (first-person possessive visaku, second-person possessive visamu, third-person possessive visanya)

1. visa

Latin

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i?.sa/, [?u?i?s?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.sa/, [?vi?s??]

Noun

v?sa

1. nominative plural of v?sum
2. accusative plural of v?sum
3. vocative plural of v?sum

Etymology 2

Inflected form of v?sus (“seen, having been seen”), perfect passive participle of vide? (“see”).

Pronunciation

• v?sa: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i?.sa/, [?u?i?s?ä]
• v?sa: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.sa/, [?vi?s??]
• v?s?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i?.sa?/, [?u?i?s?ä?]
• v?s?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.sa/, [?vi?s??]

Participle

v?sa

1. nominative feminine singular of v?sus
2. nominative neuter plural of v?sus
3. accusative neuter plural of v?sus
4. vocative feminine singular of v?sus
5. vocative neuter plural of v?sus

Participle

v?s?

1. ablative feminine singular of v?sus

References

• visa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Adjective

visa

1. genitive singular masculine form of viss
2. nominative singular feminine form of viss

Pronoun

visa

1. genitive singular masculine form of viss
2. nominative singular feminine form of viss

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

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

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 *w?s?n?.

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

Derived terms

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

Synonyms

• (most senses): syna/syne

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vísa.

Noun

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

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by vise
2. definite singular of vise

Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

visa

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

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

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 *w?s?n?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi??sa/

Verb

v?sa

1. to show
2. to let know

Conjugation

Descendants

• Swedish: visa

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

visa ?

1. poison
2. venom

Portuguese

Verb

visa

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of visar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of visar

Romanian

Etymology

Either from vis +? -a, or from the rare but attested Late Latin v?s?, v?s?re, from Latin v?sum. Compare Sardinian bizare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vi?sa]

Verb

a visa (third-person singular present viseaz?, past participle visat) 1st conj.

1. to dream

Conjugation

Derived terms

• vis?tor

Related terms

• vis

Spanish

Etymology

From French visa, from Latin visa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bisa/, [?bi.sa]

Noun

visa f (plural visas)

1. (Latin America) visa

   Synonym: visado

Further reading

• “visa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swahili

Noun

visa

1. plural of kisa

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

visa

1. absolute singular definite and plural form of vis.

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish v?sa, from Old Norse vísa (“strophe, stanza”), from Proto-Germanic *w?s?.

Noun

visa c

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

Declension

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

visa

1. indefinite plural of visum

Etymology 4

From Old Swedish v?sa, from Old Norse vísa, from Proto-Germanic *w?s?n?.

Verb

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

1. to show, to display
2. to prove
3. to point at

Conjugation

Related terms

• hänvisa
• visning

See also

• ambassadör

Anagrams

• avis