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.
prudentially
psychovisual
A reference to psychological factors associated with vision; such as, the emotive connotations of particular colors, and to the center in the brain associated with such processes.
purvey
purveyance
purveyor, purveyors
1. A person, or company, supplying goods or provisions, especially food: "A watchmaker is getting excited about selling watches, despite uncertain economic times for purveyors of luxury."
2. Someone who, or a business that, sells or provides something for sale: "My friend is a purveyor of kitchen supplies."
3. A supplier, seller, or circulator of something; especially, something that is disapproved of or ridiculed.
4. An officer who formerly provided, or exacted provision, for the king's household.
5. Etymology: from about 1290, from Old French porveoir, "to provide"; which came from Latin providere, "to look ahead, to prepare, to supply"; from pro-, "ahead" + videre, "to see".
purview
Quidquid agas prudenter agas.
Whatever you do, do with caution.
The full proverb is Quidquid agas prudenter agas et respice finem and is translated as "Whatever you do, do with caution, and look to the end."
A shorter version using, Respice finem, is translated as, "Look before you leap." review
reviewable
reviewal
reviewer
reviewless
revisal
revise
reviser
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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