Meaning and Origin
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Origin and Meaning of Vista
User Submitted Origins
Persian/Iranian
70%
Hindi
20%
Roman
10%
International Interest
Also see international interest
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
noun Vis"ta
A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or other objects that form the avenue.
Etymology: It., sight, view, fr. vedere, p. p. visto veduto, to see, fr. L. videre visum. See View Vision
Other Dictionary Sources
- The visual percept of a region
Wiktionary
Borrowed from Italian vista (“view, sight”), from visto, past participle of vedere (“to see”), from Latin vidēre, present active infinitive of videō (“I see”). Compare vision, video.
- A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage.
- A site offering such a view.
- (figuratively) A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination.
- a of pleasure to come
- dim of the past
vista was also found in the following language(s): Asturian, Catalan, Galician, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Portuguese, Romansch, and Spanish