different between visit vs visite

English

Etymology

From Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin v?sit?, frequentative of v?s? (“behold, survey”), from vide? (“see”). Cognate with Old Saxon w?s?n (“to visit, afflict”), archaic German weisen (“to visit, afflict”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z?t/
• Rhymes: -?z?t
• Hyphenation: vis?it

Verb

visit (third-person singular simple present visits, present participle visiting, simple past and past participle visited)

1. (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 13th c.]
2. (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability. [from 14th c.]

3. (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 13th c.]

   • [God] hath visited and redeemed his people.

   • Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread.

4. (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something). [from 14th c.]
   • 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume 68:

     Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace.

5. (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone). [from 14th c.]
   • 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:

     There used to be a sharp contest as to where the effigy was to be made, for the people thought that the house from which it was carried forth would not be visited with death that year.

6. (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone. [from 14th c.]
   • 2011, John Mullan, The Guardian, 2 Dec 2011:

     If this were an Ibsen play, we would be thinking of the sins of one generation being visited upon another, he said.

7. (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) [from 14th c.]
8. (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc. [from 15th c.]
   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

     Each year, millions of people visit the 4,570-meter-high Baishui Glacier in southern China.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (go and meet):: call on

Translations

Noun

visit (plural visits)

1. A single act of visiting.
2. (medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.

Derived terms

Translations

Related terms

• unvisited
• visitation
• visitor

Latin

Verb

v?sit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of v?s?
2. third-person singular perfect active indicative of v?s?

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French visite. See visit.

Noun

visite (plural visites)

1. A light cape or short cloak of silk or lace formerly worn by women in summer.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French visite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi?zit?/
• Hyphenation: vi?si?te
• Rhymes: -it?

Noun

visite f (plural visites)

1. visit

   Synonym: bezoek

2. (collective) visitors, guests

   Synonym: bezoek

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: visite
• ? Sranan Tongo: fisiti

French

Etymology

See visiter

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.zit/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /vi.z?t/

Noun

visite f (plural visites)

1. visit

Derived terms

Verb

visite

1. first-person singular present indicative of visiter
2. third-person singular present indicative of visiter

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch visite (“visit”), from French visite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /visit?/
• Hyphenation: vi?si?tê

Noun

visite (first-person possessive visiteku, second-person possessive visitemu, third-person possessive visitenya)

1. (medicine) ward round, a regular visit paid by the medical staff to hospital inpatients under their care, in order to review their progress.

Related terms

Italian

Noun

visite f

1. plural of visita

Anagrams

• estivi, vestii

Latin

Verb

v?site

1. second-person plural present active imperative of v?s?

Norman

Etymology

From Latin v?sit?, v?sit?re (“go to see, visit”), frequentative of v?s?, v?sere (“behold, survey”), from vide?, vid?re (“see”).

Noun

visite f (plural visites)

1. (Guernsey) visit

Portuguese

Verb

visite

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of visitar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of visitar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of visitar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of visitar

Spanish

Verb

visite

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of visitar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of visitar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of visitar.