vid-, video-, vis-, -vision, -visional, -visionally, visuo-, vu-
(Latin: videre, "to see"; plus words with other related meanings: to notice, observe, look, perceive; seeing, seen, sight, view; manifest, manifested, reveal, revealed)
Although many of the words in this unit seem to be from other Latin origins, all of them are etymologically derived from the main videre, "to see" element.
vis
Force; power; energy; violence; faculty.
The singular form is vis; the plural form is vires.
visa
visage
vis-à-vis
1. Face to face, or opposite each other: "The usual position in social dancing is vis-à-vis."
2. Someone who has the same functions and characteristics as another; a counterpart.
3. Etymology: from French "face to face"; from Old French vis, "face"; from Latin visus, "faculty of seeing, sight, vision"; past participle of videre, "to see".
vise
visibility
visible
visibleness
visibly
vision
1. The act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
2. The act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be: prophetic vision; the vision of an entrepreneur.
3. An experience in which a person, thing, or event appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although not actually present, often under the influence of a divine or other agency.
4. A vivid, imaginative conception or anticipation; visions of wealth and glory.
5. Something seen; an object of sight.
6. A scene, person, etc., of extraordinary beauty.
vision*
The art of seeing things invisible.
visionariness
visionary
visionless
visit
Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "appear, visible, visual, manifest, show, see, reveal, look":
blep-;
delo-;
demonstra-;
opt-;
-orama;
pare-;
phanero-;
phant-;
pheno-;
scopo-;
spec-;
vela-, veal-.
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