Etymology

visitor

vis·it·or
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Today it means: Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest. Full definition →

Middle English visiter ← Anglo-Norman visitour ← Old French visetëor
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  1. Old French · derived fromvisetëor
  2. Anglo-Norman · derived fromvisitour
  3. Middle English · inherited fromvisitour
  4. Middle English · inherited fromvisiter
  5. English todayvisitor

Partly from Middle English visiter, visitere, equivalent to visit + -er; and partly from Middle English visitour, from Anglo-Norman visitour, from Old French visetëor. By surface analysis, visit + -or.

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