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Translation

visa

Word origin

From French visa, from Latin visa, things seen, the neuter plural past participle of videre, to see. A visa began as a clerk's note that the papers had been seen and were in order, which is exactly what the stamp still says.

Origin
French, from Latin
Root
visum
English cognates
visa, vision, video, evident

Examples

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I need a visa to travel to that country.

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The official looked at my passport and the visa.

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Her visa is valid for only three months.

A real relation you cannot use. and vidi go back to the same Latin verb e, and so does vizio at rank 2,698 - a thing seen, whether in the sky or in the head, which is why sits next to inspiri in a way never will. The cousinhood is genuine and completely useless to you as a builder: there is no Esperanto seam here. You cannot cut into vid- plus anything, because the root is -, borrowed whole through French, with one narrow meaning attached. The false friends article makes the general case - a resemblance between roots is evidence of nothing on its own.

The document, precisely. A is not the permission to enter, it is the endorsement in the pasporto saying the papers have been examined. Grammatically the verb is , to endorse a document, and the official who does it is the vizanto. Enirvizo is an entry visa, elirvizo an exit visa, trairvizo a transit visa, all built with the prefixes you already have.

Travel vocabulary, congress edition. This word earns its place because Esperanto meetings are international by definition, and every kongreso thread contains somebody asking about one. The set is , , limo for the border, dogano for customs, and permesi for what the whole apparatus is deciding whether to do.

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This word is part of lesson 59.