visage
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman and from Old French visage, from vis, from Vulgar Latin as if *visāticum, from Latin visus (“a look, vision”), from vidēre (“to see”); see vision.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɪzɪdʒ/
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Noun
visage (plural visages)
- Countenance; appearance; one's face.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:countenance
- 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter XX, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., OCLC 34363729, page 334:
- Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.
Translations
countenance; appearance; face
Further reading
- visage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- visage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Old French visage, from vis (from Latin visus) + -age, or possibly a Vulgar Latin *visāticum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi.zaʒ/
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Synonyms
Further reading
- “visage” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Etymology
vis + -age, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *visāticum, from Latin visus. Compare Old Occitan vizatge.
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