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visor
English
Alternative forms
- vizor
Etymology
From Middle English viser, from Anglo-Norman viser and Old French visiere.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?va?z?/
- Rhymes: -a?z?(?)
Noun
visor (plural visors)
- A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
- A mask for the face.
- 1608, William Shakspeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act IV, Scene IV, line 44.
- No visor does become black villainy
So well as soft and tender flattery.
- No visor does become black villainy
- 1608, William Shakspeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act IV, Scene IV, line 44.
- The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.
Related terms
- vizard
Translations
Latin
Etymology
From vide? (“to see, look; watch, observe”), via the radical of its supine v?sum +? -tor, from Proto-Italic *wid?? (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?u?i?.sor/, [?u?i?s??r]
- (Vulgar) IPA(key): /??i?.sor/, [??i?sor]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?vi.sor/, [?vi?s??r]
Noun
v?sor m (genitive v?s?ris); third declension
- one who sees, looks at, watches; a seer, viewer, watcher
- one who scouts, explores; one who performs reconnaissance; a scout
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Verb
v?sor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of v?s? (“to view, look into, stare at; go see, visit”)
References
- visor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- visor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1684
- visor in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, page 3519
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
visor f
- (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of visa
- (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of vise
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bi?so?/, [bi?so?]
Noun
visor m (plural visores)
- visor
Swedish
Noun
visor
- indefinite plural of visa
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canopy
English
Etymology
From Middle English canape, canope, from Latin c?n?p?um (“curtain”) (ultimately from Ancient Greek ????????? (k?n?peîon)), through Medieval Latin canopeum, or possibly Old French conope, conopé (compare modern French canapé). Doublet of canapé and conopeum.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kæ.n?.pi/
Noun
canopy (plural canopies)
- A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.
- golden canopies and beds of state
- Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.
- The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.
- In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
- In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.
Descendants
- ? French: canopée (calque)
- ? Spanish: canopy
Translations
Verb
canopy (third-person singular simple present canopies, present participle canopying, simple past and past participle canopied)
- (transitive) To cover with or as if with a canopy.
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene 1,[1]
- Away before me to sweet beds of flowers:
- Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.
- 1634, John Milton, Comus, lines 543-5,[2]
- I sat me down to watch upon a bank
- With ivy canopied, and interwove
- With flaunting honeysuckle […]
- 1818, Mary Shelley, Franklenstein, Chapter 11,[3]
- I began also to observe, with greater accuracy, the forms that surrounded me, and to perceive the boundaries of the radiant roof of light which canopied me.
- 1850, The Madras Journal of Literature and Science, Vol. XVI, No. 38, Vepery: J.P. Bantleman, p. 366,[4]
- The walls of the vestibule and passage passing round the sanctuary, are covered with compartments holding high reliefs of Buddha seated on a lotus, the stem of which is grasped by two figures wearing wigs and tiaras, canopied by snakes; […]
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene 1,[1]
- (intransitive) To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.
- 2013, Tara Morris, “Canopying In Rio Claro,” colombiareports.com, 11 March, 2013,[5]
- If you’re looking for a little adventure in Colombia, look no further than canopying through Rio Claro’s lush, secluded jungle, located just five hours bus ride from either Medellin or Bogota.
- 2013, Tara Morris, “Canopying In Rio Claro,” colombiareports.com, 11 March, 2013,[5]
See also
- canopied
- canopy bed
Spanish
Noun
canopy m (uncountable)
- (Caribbean) zipline (activity)
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