visiter
See also: vîsiter
English
Noun
visiter (plural visiters)
- Archaic form of visitor.
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, OCLC 1000392275, page 88:
- Lady Anne had too good taste for that. Still, any one who knew her not, might have thought, from the unusual care and pains bestowed on her appearance, that she herself meditated a conquest of their visiter.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for visiter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Viteris, revisit
French
Etymology
From Middle French visiter, a learned borrowing from Latin vīsitō (“to visit”). Replaced the inherited form seen in Old French visder.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi.zi.te/
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Verb
visiter
- to visit (a place)
- Tu dois visiter Paris un jour.
- You must visit Paris one day
Usage notes
Visiter is only used for places. In French they say "rendre visite à" for people, i.e. "Je rends visite à mon père à Paris." = I'm visiting my father in Paris.
Conjugation
Conjugation of visiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | visiter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | visitant /vi.zi.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | visité /vi.zi.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | visite /vi.zit/ | visites /vi.zit/ | visite /vi.zit/ | visitons /vi.zi.tɔ̃/ | visitez /vi.zi.te/ | visitent /vi.zit/ |
| imperfect | visitais /vi.zi.tɛ/ | visitais /vi.zi.tɛ/ | visitait /vi.zi.tɛ/ | visitions /vi.zi.tjɔ̃/ | visitiez /vi.zi.tje/ | visitaient /vi.zi.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | visitai /vi.zi.te/ | visitas /vi.zi.ta/ | visita /vi.zi.ta/ | visitâmes /vi.zi.tam/ | visitâtes /vi.zi.tat/ | visitèrent /vi.zi.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | visiterai /vi.zi.tʁe/ | visiteras /vi.zi.tʁa/ | visitera /vi.zi.tʁa/ | visiterons /vi.zi.tʁɔ̃/ | visiterez /vi.zi.tʁe/ | visiteront /vi.zi.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | visiterais /vi.zi.tʁɛ/ | visiterais /vi.zi.tʁɛ/ | visiterait /vi.zi.tʁɛ/ | visiterions /vi.zi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | visiteriez /vi.zi.tə.ʁje/ | visiteraient /vi.zi.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | visite /vi.zit/ | visites /vi.zit/ | visite /vi.zit/ | visitions /vi.zi.tjɔ̃/ | visitiez /vi.zi.tje/ | visitent /vi.zit/ |
| imperfect2 | visitasse /vi.zi.tas/ | visitasses /vi.zi.tas/ | visitât /vi.zi.ta/ | visitassions /vi.zi.ta.sjɔ̃/ | visitassiez /vi.zi.ta.sje/ | visitassent /vi.zi.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | visite /vi.zit/ | — | visitons /vi.zi.tɔ̃/ | visitez /vi.zi.te/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
- visite
- visiteur
Descendants
- → Romanian: vizita
Further reading
- “visiter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
vīsiter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of vīsitō
Middle French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vīsitō (“to visit”). Replaced the inherited form seen in Old French visder.
Verb
visiter
- to visit (a person or a place)
Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of visiter
| infinitive | simple | visiter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle1 or gerund2 | simple | visitant | |||||
| compound | present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | visité | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (i’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | visite | visites | visite | visitons | visitez | visitent |
| imperfect | visitois, visitoys | visitois, visitoys | visitoit, visitoyt | visitions, visityons | visitiez, visityez | visitoient, visitoyent | |
| past historic | visita | visitas | visita | visitasmes | visitastes | visiterent | |
| future | visiterai, visiteray | visiteras | visitera | visiterons | visiterez | visiteront | |
| conditional | visiterois, visiteroys | visiterois, visiteroys | visiteroit, visiteroyt | visiterions, visiteryons | visiteriez, visiteryez | visiteroient, visiteroyent | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que ie (i’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ilz, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | visite | visites | visite | visitons | visitez | visitent |
| imperfect | visitasse | visitasses | visitast | visitassions | visitassiez | visitassent | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | visite | — | visitons | visitez | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679. | |||||||
| 2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180). | |||||||
Descendants
- French: visiter
- → Romanian: vizita
- → Norman: vîsiter
- → Middle Dutch: visiteren
- Dutch: visiteren
- → Middle English: visiten
- English: visit