Etymology

voir dire

Today it means: The preliminary phase of a jury trial in which the jurors are examined and selected. Full definition →

Old French voir ← Latin vērum
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  1. Latin · derived fromvērum
  2. Old French · derived fromvoir“true, truth”
  3. English todayvoir dire

Anglo-Norman for “to say the truth”, from Old French voir (“true, truth”) + dire (“to say”), from Latin vērum + dīcere.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.