visor

See also: Visor and ViSOR

English

Alternative forms

• vizor
• (obsolete) viser, visere, visier, visiere

Etymology

From Middle English viser, from Anglo-Norman viser and Old French visiere.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪzɚ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)

Noun

visor (plural visors)

1. A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.

   Coordinate terms: bevor, buffe

   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 7:

     A close helmet entirely covers the head, face, and neck, having on the front perforations for the admission of air, and slits through which the wearer may see objects around him, this part which is stiled the visor lifts up by means of a pivot over each ear.

2. A mask for the face.
   • 1608, William Shakspeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, act IV, scene IV, line 44:

     No visor does become black villainy
     So well as soft and tender flattery.

3. The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.
4. A rigid adjustable flap on an automobile windshield that can shield the eyes of a driver from direct sunlight or glare.

Hyponyms

• sun visor

Related terms

• vizard

Translations

part of a helmet

• Bulgarian: забра́ло (bg) n (zabrálo)
• Czech: ochranný štítek m, hledí (cs) n
• Dutch: vizier (nl) n
• Finnish: visiiri (fi), silmikko (fi)
• French: visière (fr) f
• Georgian: პირისახის შუშა (ṗirisaxis šuša)
• German: Visier (de) n
• Hungarian: sisakrostély (hu)
• Latin: buccula f
• Macedonian: визир m (vizir)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: visir n

• Polish: przyłbica (pl) f
• Portuguese: viseira (pt) f
• Russian: забра́ло (ru) n (zabrálo)
• Spanish: visera (es) f
• Swedish: visir (sv) n
• Tagalog: bisera
• Turkish: siperlik (tr), vizör (tr)
• Ukrainian: забра́ло n (zabrálo)

mask — see mask

fore piece of a cap

• Bulgarian: козирка (bg) f (kozirka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帽舌 (zh) (màoshé), 遮陽板／遮阳板 (zh) (zhēyángbǎn)

• Czech: kšilt m
• Dutch: klep (nl)
• Finnish: lippa (fi)
• French: visière (fr) f
• Georgian: წინაფრა (c̣inapra)
• German: Visier (de) n
• Hungarian: napellenző (hu), ellenző (hu), sild (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skygge (no) m

• Russian: козырёк (ru) m (kozyrjók)
• Spanish: visera (es) f
• Swedish: skärm (sv) c, mösskärm (sv) c
• Ukrainian: козиро́к m (kozyrók)
• Vietnamese: lưỡi trai (vi)

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Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} החלק בקסדה שנפתח להראות את הפנים, ^{(please verify)} מסכה פשוטה, ^{(please verify)} מצחייה, בכובע

Verb

visor (third-person singular simple present visors, present participle visoring, simple past and past participle visored)

1. (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a visor.

   Antonym: unvisor

Latin

Etymology

From videō (“to see, look; watch, observe”), via the radical of its supine vīsum +‎ -tor, from Proto-Italic *widēō (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.sor/, [ˈu̯iːs̠ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.sor/, [ˈviːs̬or]

Noun

vīsor m (genitive vīsōris); third declension

1. one who sees, looks at, watches; a seer, viewer, watcher
2. one who scouts, explores; one who performs reconnaissance; a scout

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vīsor	vīsōrēs
genitive	vīsōris	vīsōrum
dative	vīsōrī	vīsōribus
accusative	vīsōrem	vīsōrēs
ablative	vīsōre	vīsōribus
vocative	vīsor	vīsōrēs

Verb

vīsor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of vīsō (“to view, look into, stare at; go see, visit”)

References

• “visor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• visor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1684.
• visor in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3519

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

visor f

1. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of visa
2. (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of vise

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /biˈsoɾ/ [biˈsoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: vi‧sor

Noun

visor m (plural visores)

1. visor

Further reading

• “visor”, 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

Swedish

Noun

visor

1. indefinite plural of visa