different between vista vs sight

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian vista (“view, sight”), from visto, past participle of vedere (“to see”), from Latin vid?re, present active infinitive of vide? (“I see”). Compare vision, video, visa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?st?/, IPA^(key): /?vi?st?/

Noun

vista (plural vistas)

1. A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage.
2. A site offering such a view.
3. (figuratively) A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination.

Derived terms

• vistaed

Related terms

• visto

Translations

Verb

vista (third-person singular simple present vistas, present participle vistaing, simple past and past participle vistaed)

1. (transitive) To make a vista or landscape of.

References

• vista in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “vista”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• vitas

Asturian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin visa, feminine past participle of vide?.

Noun

vista f (plural vistes)

1. vision (sense or ability of sight)

   Synonym: visión

2. view
3. celerity
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Catalan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin visa, feminine past participle of vide?.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?vis.t?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?bis.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?vis.ta/

Noun

vista f (plural vistes)

1. sight, vision (the ability to see)
2. view (the act of seeing or looking at something)
3. view (the range of vision)
4. view (something to look at, such as scenery)

Derived terms

• punt de vista
• vistós

Verb

vista f sg

1. past participle of veure

Further reading

• “vista” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vista” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “vista” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vista” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin visa, feminine past participle of vide?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bista?/

Noun

vista f (plural vistas)

1. view
2. sight, eyesight

   Synonym: visión

Derived terms

• Boavista
• Vista Alegre

References

• “vista” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “vista” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “vista” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “vista” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “vista” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Icelandic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?sta/
• Rhymes: -?sta

Verb

vista (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative vistaði, supine vistað)

1. (transitive, intransitive, with accusative) to place, to find a place for
2. (transitive, intransitive, with accusative, computing) to save a document, a file, pages etc.

Usage notes

• The computing word vista (“save”) enjoys limited popularity in informal spoken language, where the direct English loan word seiva (from English save) is often used instead, though usually considered nonstandard in more formal or written contexts.

Conjugation

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin visa, feminine past participle of vide?.

Pronunciation

Participle

vista f sg

1. feminine singular of visto

Adjective

vista

1. feminine singular of visto

Noun

vista f (plural viste)

1. sight, eyesight, vision, visual acuity
2. a view, panorama

Hypernyms

• cinque sensi

Related terms

• a vista

Verb

vista

1. third-person singular present indicative of vistare
2. second-person singular imperative of vistare

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: vista

Anagrams

• stavi, stiva, svita, vasti

Latvian

Etymology

There are two theories on the origin of this word. One derives it from Proto-Baltic *wiš- (with an extra element -t?), from Proto-Indo-European *wik-, the zero grade form of *wey?- (“house, settlement”). The original meaning would then have been “(relating to) the house, the settlement", from which "domestic (animal)” and finally “chicken.” The other theory relates it to Avestan ????????????? (v?š, “bird”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European stem *weys-. Cognates include Lithuanian vištà.

Pronunciation

Noun

vista f (4th declension)

1. hen (female chicken); chicken (Gallus gallus in general)

Declension

Related terms

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Italian vista (“sight, vision, view”), from Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin v?sa, inflected form of v?sus (“having been seen”), feminine past participle of vide? (“I see, perceive, observe”), from Proto-Italic *wid?? (“see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???sta/
• Rhymes: -?sta
• Hyphenation: vis?ta

Adverb

vista

1. Only used in a vista (“upon showing”)
2. Only used in a prima vista (“sight-read”)

Etymology 2

Noun

vista m or f

1. definite feminine singular of vist

Portuguese

Etymology

Past participle of ver. From Old Portuguese, from Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin visa, feminine past participle of vide?.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?vi?.t?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?vis.t?/
• Hyphenation: vis?ta

Noun

vista f (plural vistas)

1. (colloquial) eye; eyeball

   Synonym: (more common) olho

2. sight

3. view

Derived terms

• dar uma vista de olhos
• vista desarmada

Adjective

vista f sg

1. feminine singular of visto

Verb

vista

1. feminine singular past participle of ver

Romansch

Alternative forms

• vesta (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin visa, feminine past participle of vide?.

Noun

vista f (plural vistas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) view
2. (Rumantsch Grischun, anatomy) cheek
3. (Puter, Vallader, anatomy) face

   Synonym: fatscha

Synonyms

• (cheek):
  • (Surmiran) missela
  • (Puter, Vallader) massella

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bista/, [?bis.t?a]

Etymology 1

From the Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin vide?.

Noun

vista f (plural vistas)

1. sight, vision

   Synonym: visión

2. view
3. (law) trial

Derived terms

Related terms

Verb

vista f sg

1. Feminine singular past participle of ver.

Adjective

vista f sg

1. feminine singular of visto

Etymology 2

Verb

vista

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

Further reading

• “vista” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Middle English si?ht, si?t, siht, from Old English siht, sihþ (“something seen; vision”), from Proto-West Germanic *sihti, equivalent to see +? -th. Cognate with Scots sicht, Saterland Frisian Sicht, West Frisian sicht, Dutch zicht, German Low German Sicht, German Sicht, Danish sigte, Swedish sikte.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?t
• enPR: s?t, IPA^(key): /sa?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: cite, site

Noun

sight (countable and uncountable, plural sights)

1. (in the singular) The ability to see.
2. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.

   • And when hee had spoken these things, while they beheld, hee was taken vp, and a cloud receiued him out of their sight.

3. Something seen.
   • 2005, Lesley Brown (translator), Plato (author), Sophist, 236d:

     He's a really remarkable man and it's very hard to get him in one's sights; […]

4. Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.

   • And Moses saide, I will nowe turne aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion

     They never saw a sight so fair.

5. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
6. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
7. (now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.

   • A nombre of twenty sterres bright,
     Which is to sene a wonder sight

   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2

     "If your mother put you in the pit at twelve, it's no reason why I should do the same with my lad."

     "Twelve! It wor a sight afore that!"

8. In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame, the open space, the opening.
9. (obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
10. Mental view; opinion; judgment.
    • That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Synonyms

• (ability to see): sense of sight, vision
• (something seen): view
• (aiming device): scope, peep sight

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

sight (third-person singular simple present sights, present participle sighting, simple past and past participle sighted)

1. (transitive) To register visually.
2. (transitive) To get sight of (something).

3. (transitive) To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight.

4. (transitive) To take aim at.

Synonyms

• (visually register): see
• (get sight of): espy, glimpse, spot
• (take aim): aim at, take aim at

Derived terms

• resight

Translations

See also

• see
• vision

Anagrams

• ghits, thigs, tighs