visor

== English == === Alternative forms === vizor visar, visier, visiere, visour (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English viser, from Anglo-Norman viser and Old French visiere. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /ˈvaɪzɚ/ Rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ) === Noun === visor (plural visors) 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 A mask for the face. The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes. 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 ==== === Verb === visor (third-person singular simple present visors, present participle visoring, simple past and past participle visored) (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a visor. Antonym: unvisor == Latin == === Etymology === From videō (“to see, look; watch, observe”) +‎ -tor, from Proto-Italic *widēō (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈwiː.sɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈviː.s̬or] === Noun === vīsor m (genitive vīsōris); third declension (very rare) one who sees, looks at, watches: a viewer, watcher (disputed, only attested in a gloss in Tacitus) one who scouts, explores; one who performs reconnaissance; a scout Synonym: explōrātor (Medieval Latin, law, in the plural) an eyewitness Hypernym: testis Coordinate term: audītor (“earwitness”) (Medieval Latin) an official appointed by a king who would look over the forests ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. === Verb === vīsor 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 "visores", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Noun === visor f (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of visa (non-standard since 2012) indefinite plural of vise == Spanish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /biˈsoɾ/ [biˈsoɾ] Rhymes: -oɾ Syllabification: vi‧sor === Noun === visor m (plural visores) visor Synonym: visera (computing) viewer viewfinder Synonym: mirilla firearm sight Synonym: mira === Further reading === “visor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025 == Swedish == === Noun === visor indefinite plural of visa