visiter

See also: vîsiter

English

Noun

visiter (plural visiters)

  1. 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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

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

  1. 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 – tu – nous vous –
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Descendants
  • → Romanian: vizita

Further reading

Latin

Verb

vīsiter

  1. 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

  1. 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 – tu – nous vous –
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).

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