The story
- Latin · derived fromvīsus“appearance, sight”
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*vīsāticum
- Anglo-Norman · derived fromvisage
- Middle English · inherited fromvisage
- English todayvisage
From Middle English visage, from Anglo-Norman visage, from Vulgar Latin *vīsāticum, derived from Latin vīsus (“appearance, sight”), derived from vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision. See -age (“noun suffix”).
Words from the same roots
Latinvīsus all →
visive
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.