different between visiter vs visited

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z?t?d/
• Hyphenation: vis?it?ed

Verb

visited

1. past participle of visit

Adjective

visited (comparative more visited, superlative most visited)

1. That has received a visit or visits.

Derived terms

• unvisited