different between tourist vs visiter

English

Etymology

From tour +? -ist.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t????st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?t??.?st/, /?t?.?st/, /?t??.?st/

Noun

tourist (plural tourists)

1. Someone who travels for pleasure rather than for business. [from 1770s]
2. (derogatory) One who visits a place or attends a social event out of curiosity, wanting to watch without commitment or involvement.
3. (sports, informal) A member of the visiting team in a match.

Derived terms

Related terms

• tour
• tour guide
• tourism
• Grand Tour

Descendants

All are borrowed.

Translations

Further reading

• Tourism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Noun

visiter (plural visiters)

1. Archaic form of visitor.

Anagrams

• Viteris, revisit

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin v?sit?re, present active infinitive of v?sit? (“I see, I visit”). Compare the popular form in Old French, visder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.zi.te/

Verb

visiter

1. to visit (a place)

   Tu dois visiter Paris un jour.

   You must visit Paris one day

Usage notes

Visiter is only used for places. In French they say "rendre visite à" for people, i.e. "Je rends visite à mon père à Paris." = I'm visiting my father in Paris.

Conjugation

Related terms

• visite
• visiteur

Descendants

• ? Romanian: vizita

Further reading

• “visiter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

v?siter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of v?sit?

Middle French

Verb

visiter

1. to visit (a person or a place)

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: visiter
  • ? Romanian: vizita
• ? Middle Dutch: visiteren
  • Dutch: visiteren
• ? Middle English: visiten
  • English: visit