Visitation - Wiktionary

See also: Visitation

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:visitationWikipedia

Etymology

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From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō. By surface analysis, visit +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

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visitation (countable and uncountable, plural visitations)

1. The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
   • 1995, United States. National Park Service. Denver Service Center, Draft, Frontcountry Development Concept Plan, page I:Existing visitor facilities for both frontcountry areas experience crowding during the summer season, when the park receives most of its visitation, […]
   • 2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...‎[1]:Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
2. An official visit to inspect or examine something.
3. An encounter with aliens or supernatural beings such as ghosts.
4. An affliction or disaster attributed to destiny, or to God.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 81:But when the blow comes down in the fulness of expectation; when the bough is smitten while green, and the flower cut down in its spring; when the young and lovely perish, while the eyes, full of light, were fixed on the future,—then, indeed, is the visitation heavy to bear.
5. (law) The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
6. A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
7. (ecology) An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.

Derived terms

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• conjugal visitation
• Nun of the Visitation

Translations

[edit] act of visiting

Bulgarian: посещение (bg) n (poseštenie) Finnish: vierailu (fi) Georgian: ნახვა (naxva), ვიზიტი (viziṭi), წვევა (c̣veva) Greek: επίσκεψη (el) f (epískepsi) Hungarian: látogatás (hu) Polish: wizytacja (pl) f, wizytowanie (pl) n, zwizytowanie (pl) n Spanish: visitación (es) f Swedish: visit (sv) Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: زیارت (ziyâret)

official visit

Bulgarian: визита (bg) f (vizita) Finnish: vierailu (fi) Georgian: ვიზიტი (viziṭi) Gothic: 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (niuhseins) Greek: επίσκεψη (el) f (epískepsi) Hungarian: hivatalos látogatás, szemle (hu), megtekintés (hu), vizsgálat (hu), (of a school) iskolalátogatás (hu) Polish: wizytacja (pl) f Swedish: visit (sv) Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: زیارت (ziyâret)

encounter with supernatural beings

Finnish: etsikko (God or his envoy), kohtaaminen (fi) (ghost, alien etc.)

right to see one's child

Dutch: omgangsrecht n Finnish: tapaamisoikeus French: droit de visite m German: Umgangsrecht n Greek: δικαίωμα επίσκεψης n (dikaíoma epískepsis) Hungarian: láthatás (hu), kapcsolattartás (hu) Italian: diritto di visita m

punishment or blessing ordained by God

Bulgarian: изпитание (bg) n (izpitanie) Greek: επίσκεψη (el) f (epískepsi) Hungarian: ítélet (hu), csapás (hu) Polish: nawiedzenie n

Anagrams

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• vitiations

French

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Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /vi.zi.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

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visitation f (plural visitations)

1. visitation (by a spirit)

Related terms

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• visiter

Further reading

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• “visitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Old French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin vīsitātiō.

Noun

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visitation oblique singular, f (oblique plural visitations, nominative singular visitation, nominative plural visitations)

1. visitation (act of visiting)
2. visitation (visit in order to inspect something)
3. visitation (supernatural encounter)

References

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• Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “visitation”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
• visitation on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Swedish

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Noun

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visitation c

1. a visitation (official inspection)
2. an act of searching or frisking (someone)

Declension

[edit] Declension of visitation

nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	visitation	visitations
	definite	visitationen	visitationens
plural	indefinite	visitationer	visitationers
	definite	visitationerna	visitationernas

Related terms

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• visitera

References

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• visitation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• visitation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)