different between visor vs goggles

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)

1. 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.
2. 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.

3. 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

1. one who sees, looks at, watches; a seer, viewer, watcher
2. one who scouts, explores; one who performs reconnaissance; a scout

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

v?sor

1. 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

1. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of visa
2. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of vise

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi?so?/, [bi?so?]

Noun

visor m (plural visores)

1. visor

Swedish

Noun

visor

1. indefinite plural of visa

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???.??lz/

Etymology 1

Probably from goggle, from the appearance it gives the wearer.

Noun

goggles pl (plural only)

1. Protective eyewear set in a flexible frame to fit snugly against the face.

2. Blinds for shying horses.

Synonyms

• pair of goggles

Related terms

• safety glasses
• swimming goggles

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

goggles

1. plural of goggle

Etymology 3

Verb

goggles

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of goggle