Etymology

vision

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Today it means: The sense or ability of sight. Full definition →

Middle English visioun ← Anglo-Norman visioun ← Latin vīsiō
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*weyd-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*widtós
  3. Proto-Italic*wissos
  4. Latinvīsus
  5. Latinvīsiō
  6. Anglo-Normanvisioun
  7. Middle Englishvisioun
  8. English todayvision

From Middle English visioun, from Anglo-Norman visioun, from Old French vision, from Latin vīsiō (“vision, seeing”), noun of action from the perfect passive participle visus (“that which is seen”), from the verb videō (“to see”) + action noun suffix -iō.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.