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Translation

vision (an apparition); vision (a picture of the future)

Word origin

From Latin visio, a seeing, from videre, to see. Esperanto vidi comes from that same videre, so the family resemblance between vidi and vizio is genuine rather than accidental.

Origin
Latin
Root
visio
English cognates
vision, visible, evident

Examples

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The prophet told of a vision of the future.

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Her vision of the new city convinced everybody.

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That was not a dream but a clear vision.

A seam that looks false and is not. Esperanto is full of pairs that look related and are not: vespero and vesperto fourteen ranks above this one, and sixteen. This is the opposite case. Vidi, rank 55, and both descend from Latin e, to see. The d turning into z is regular: Latin built its participle on vis-, which is why English has visible and evident from one root, and Esperanto inherited both shapes. Trusting the resemblance here gets you the right answer.

But you still cannot decompose it. is a borrowed root, not vid- plus anything, so it takes no part in Esperanto's building system: there is no verb meaning to see. And it never means eyesight. English vision covers the faculty (her vision is poor), and Esperanto refuses that job entirely: eyesight is vidpovo or vidkapablo. Take the English word apart before you translate it.

The fence against . Revo, rank 693, is a daydream or an aspiration, something you want. Sonĝo, rank 548, is what happens in your head while you are asleep. A is neither: it is something that appears to you, an apparition, or in the modern managerial sense a picture of a future you claim to have seen. That second sense is now the commoner one in print, and it is worth noticing that the language kept the mystical flavour underneath it, which is roughly why about a sales target sounds as pompous in Esperanto as it does in English.

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This word is part of lesson 54.