Etymology

visionary

vi·sion·ar·y
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Today it means: Having vision or foresight. Full definition →

English vision ← Middle English visioun ← Anglo-Norman visioun
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The story

  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. Englishvision
  9. English todayvisionary

From vision + -ary.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.