visso

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvis.so/
• Rhymes: -isso
• Hyphenation: vìs‧so

Participle

visso (feminine vissa, masculine plural vissi, feminine plural visse)

1. (archaic, literary) Alternative form of vissuto, past participle of vivere
   • 1825, “Libro I [Book 1]”, in Vincenzo Monti, transl., Iliade [Iliad], Milan: Giovanni Resnati e Gius. Bernardoni di Gio, translation of Ἰλιάς (Iliás) by Homer, published 1840, page 20, lines 344–347:

     […] Deh! m’ascoltate;
     Chè minor d’anni di me siete entrambi;
     Ed io pur con eroi son visso un tempo
     di voi più prodi […]

     Listen to me! for both of you are younger than me, and I have once lived alongside heroes mightier than you

Anagrams

• sviso, svisò

Swedish

Etymology

From the oblique case of Old Swedish vissa f (“knowledge, confirmation, assurance”, noun), from Proto-Germanic *gawissaz or Proto-Germanic *wissį̄.

Related to viss (“sure”), visserligen (“surely, granted”), visshet (“certainty”), and German wissen (“to know”).

Adverb

visso

1. (archaic) sure, known

Usage notes

• This antiquated word is only used in a few expressions: för visso (for sure), more often run together as förvisso, and till yttermera visso (it is further known).

References

• visso in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• visso in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• visso in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• visso in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)