different between visite vs visiter

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.

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