different between visage vs envisage

English

Etymology

From Middle English visage, from Anglo-Norman and from Old French visage, from vis, from Vulgar Latin as if *vis?ticum, from Latin visus (“a look, vision”), from vid?re (“to see”); see vision.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z?d?/

Noun

visage (plural visages)

1. Countenance; appearance; one's face.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:countenance

Related terms

• visaged
• envisage
• evidence
• vision
• visionary
• visual
• visualization
• visualize

Translations

Further reading

• visage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• visage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Veigas

French

Etymology

From Old French visage, from vis (from Latin visus) + -age, or possibly a Vulgar Latin *vis?ticum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.za?/

Noun

visage m (plural visages)

1. face (anatomy)

Synonyms

• (vulgar) tronche
• (slang) bouille
• (vulgar) gueule
• face (only used in certain constructions, or in Canada)
• figure

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French visage.

Noun

visage (plural visages)

1. (anatomy) face

Synonyms

• face

Descendants

• English: visage

Old French

Etymology

vis +? -age, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *vis?ticum, from Latin visus. Compare Old Occitan vizatge.

Noun

visage m (oblique plural visages, nominative singular visages, nominative plural visage)

1. (anatomy) face

Synonyms

• vis
• face
• volt

Descendants

• Middle English: visage
  • English: visage
• French: visage

English

Etymology

From French envisager, from en (“in”) + visage (“visage”); see English visage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?v?z?d?/, /?n?v?z?d?/

Verb

envisage (third-person singular simple present envisages, present participle envisaging, simple past and past participle envisaged)

1. To conceive or see something within one's mind; to imagine or envision.
   • 1860, James McCosh, The Intuitions of the Mind Inductively Investigated

     From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self.

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• envisage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• envisage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

French

Verb

envisage

1. first-person singular present indicative of envisager
2. third-person singular present indicative of envisager
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of envisager
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of envisager
5. second-person singular imperative of envisager

Anagrams

• vengeais