Wordwyrt

visor

/ˈvaɪzə/VIGH-zur
/ˈvaɪzɚ/VIGH-zur

Meaningsight

Common meaning: movable face guard on a helmet or a shield for the eyes

Journey through time

  1. Latinuisus‘sight’source
  2. Frenchviseresource
  3. Middle Englishmeaning shiftssight → maskvisere‘mask’source
  4. Englishmeaning shiftsmask → movable face guard on a helmet or a shield for the eyesvisor‘movable face guard on a helmet or a shield for the eyes’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin uisus ‘sight’.

Roots

Building blocks are an automatic split · open in app