visualis

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *weyd-

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *widtós

Proto-Italic *wissos

Latin vīsus

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin vīsuālis

From vīsus (“the action of looking; vision”) + -ālis.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wiː.suˈaː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vi.s̬uˈaː.lis]

Adjective

vīsuālis (neuter vīsuāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (Late Latin) attained by sight

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	vīsuālis	vīsuāle		vīsuālēs	vīsuālia
genitive	vīsuālis			vīsuālium
dative	vīsuālī			vīsuālibus
accusative	vīsuālem	vīsuāle		vīsuālīs vīsuālēs	vīsuālia
ablative	vīsuālī			vīsuālibus
vocative	vīsuālis	vīsuāle		vīsuālēs	vīsuālia

References

• “visualis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “visualis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.