vista

Borrowed from Italian vista (“view, sight”), from visto, past participle of vedere (“to see”), from Latin vidēre, present active infinitive of videō (“I see”). Compare vision, video, visa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪstə/, IPA^(key): /ˈviːstə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪstə

vista (plural vistas)

1. A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 271:

     The sun soon broke forth from that one dark cloud, gradually melting into light; and the sunbeams and the glittering rain went driving together through the forest glades—those long vistas, of which the slender deer seemed the sole habitants.

   • 1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 136:

     We had our reward for our high camp and early start, for the sky was still clear, the view magnificent, with fresh vistas to the north of mountains in Tibet, of Gurla Mandhata, massive, majestic to the northeast, and further to the north, a distant pyramid, Kailash, most holy of all mountains in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology.

2. A site offering such a view.
3. (figuratively) A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination.

   a vista of pleasure to come

   dim vistas of the past

   • 2017 December 27, Michael Andor Brodeur, “The meme class of 2017”, in The Boston Globe‎^[2]:

     And while our discourse might be a disaster area, the imaginative vistas of the Internet are far more vast than the modest plot of our feeds.

• vistaed

• visto

vista (third-person singular simple present vistas, present participle vistaing, simple past and past participle vistaed)

1. (transitive) To make a vista or landscape of.
   • 1896, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Eugene Aram:

     The night had now closed in, and its darkness was only relieved by the wan lamps that vistaed the streets, and a few dim stars that struggled through the reeking haze that curtained the great city.

• “vista”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “vista”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• vitas

From Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin visa, feminine past participle of videō.

vista f (plural vistes)

1. vision (sense or ability of sight)

   Synonym: visión

2. view
3. celerity
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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin visa, feminine past participle of videō.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbis.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvis.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈvis.ta]

vista f (plural vistes)

1. sight, vision (the ability to see)
2. view (the act of seeing or looking at something)
3. view (the range of vision)
4. view (something to look at, such as scenery)

vista f sg

1. feminine singular of vist

• “vista” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vista”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “vista” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “vista” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vista, from Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin visa, feminine past participle of videō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbista̝/

vista f (plural vistas)

1. view
2. sight, eyesight

   Synonym: visión

• Boavista
• Vista Alegre

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “vista”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “vista”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vista”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vista”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vista”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

vista

1. inflection of vestir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪsta/
• Rhymes: -ɪsta

vista (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative vistaði, supine vistað)

1. (transitive, intransitive, with accusative) to place, to find a place for
2. (transitive, intransitive, with accusative, computing) to save a document, a file, pages etc.

   Vista sem…

   Save as…

   Ég vistaði myndirnar sem þú sendir mér.

   I saved the pictures you sent me.

   Ég kann ekki að vista myndir af Netinu.

   I don’t know how to save images from the Internet.

• The computing word vista (“save”) enjoys limited popularity in informal spoken language, where the direct English loan word seiva (from English save) is often used instead, though usually considered nonstandard in more formal or written contexts.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.sta/

• Audio (IT):

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• Rhymes: -ista
• Hyphenation: vì‧sta

From Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin visa, feminine past participle of videō.

vista f sg

1. feminine singular of visto

vista f sg

1. feminine singular of visto

Deverbal formed with the feminine past participle of vedere (“to see”).

vista f (plural viste)

1. sight, eyesight, vision, visual acuity

   Hypernym: cinque sensi

2. a view, panorama
3. (chiefly literary) appearance, look

   Synonyms: apparenza, aspetto, sembianza

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[3], lines 52–54; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[4], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     […] questa mi porse tanto di gravezza ¶ con la paura ch’uscia di sua vista, ¶ ch’io perdei la speranza de l’altezza.

     She brought upon me so much heaviness, with the affright that from her aspect came, that I the hope relinquished of the height.

• a vista

• → Norwegian Bokmål: vista

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vista

1. inflection of vistare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• vista in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• stavi, stiva, svita, vasti

There are two theories on the origin of this word. One derives it from Proto-Baltic *wiš- (with an extra element -tā), from Proto-Indo-European *wik-, the zero grade form of *weyḱ- (“house, settlement”). The original meaning would then have been “(relating to) the house, the settlement", from which "domestic (animal)” and finally “chicken.” The other theory relates it to Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬱 (vīš, “bird”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European stem *weys-. Cognates include Lithuanian vištà.^[1]

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vista f (4th declension)

1. hen (female chicken); chicken (Gallus gallus in general)

   mājas vista ― domestic chicken

   vista ar cāļiem ― hen with chicks

   vistas gaļa, olas ― chicken meat, eggs

   vistu kūts ― henhouse

   perētāja vista ― broody hen, sitter

   cekulainā vista ― crested hen

   vistas buljons ― chicken broth

From Italian vista (“sight, vision”), from Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin vīsa, inflected form of vīsus (“looking; sight”), perfect passive participle of videō (“I see, perceive”), from Proto-Italic *widēō (“see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɪsta/

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• Rhymes: -ɪsta
• Hyphenation: vis‧ta

vista

1. Only used in a vista (“upon showing”)
2. Only used in a prima vista (“sight-read”)

vista m or f

1. definite feminine singular of vist

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin visa, feminine past participle of videō.

vista f (plural *vistas)

1. eyesight

   Synonyms: viso, vison

• Fala: vista
• Galician: vista
• Portuguese: vista

• Manuel Ferreiro (2014–2024) “vista”, in Universo Cantigas. Edición crítica da poesía medieval galego-portuguesa (in Galician), A Coruña: UDC, →ISSN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vista, from Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin visa, feminine past participle of videō.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -istɐ, (Portugal, Rio de Janeiro) -iʃtɐ
• Hyphenation: vis‧ta

vista f (plural vistas)

1. (colloquial) eye; eyeball

   Synonym: (more common) olho

2. sight

   Tenho uma vista normal. ― I have normal eyesight.

3. view

   Mas que vista maravilhosa! ― What a marvelous view!

• dar uma vista de olhos
• vista desarmada

vista f sg

1. feminine singular of visto

vista f sg

1. feminine singular of visto

vista

1. inflection of vestir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• vesta (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

From Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin visa, feminine past participle of videō.

vista f (plural vistas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) view
2. (Rumantsch Grischun, anatomy) cheek
3. (Puter, Vallader, anatomy) face

   Synonym: fatscha

• (cheek):
  • (Surmiran) missela
  • (Puter, Vallader) massella

• IPA^(key): /ˈbista/ [ˈbis.t̪a]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ista
• Syllabification: vis‧ta

From the Vulgar Latin *visita, from Latin videō.

vista f (plural vistas)

1. sight, vision, eyesight (the ability to see)

   Synonym: visión

2. sight (the act of seeing or witnessing)

   Synonym: visión

3. appearance, look (the way something looks)

   Synonyms: aspecto, apariencia

4. view (the range of vision)

   a la vista ― in view

5. view (something to look at, such as scenery)
6. foresight (the ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future)

   Synonym: perspicacia

7. (law) hearing (a legal procedure done before a judge)

vista f sg

1. feminine singular of visto

vista f sg

1. feminine singular of visto

vista

1. inflection of vestir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “vista”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28