Visitor
/ˈvɪz.ɪ.tər/noun
A person who comes to see a place, person, or thing.
Did you know?Visitor comes from Latin *visitare*, a frequentative of *visere* meaning “to go to see,” from *videre* “to see,” the same root behind words like video and evidence.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*weid-
“to see, know”
Latin
Latin
vidēre
“to see”
Latin
Latin
visere
“to go to see, inspect”
Late Latin
Latin
visitāre
“to visit repeatedly, inspect”
Old French
Old French
visiter
“to visit, go see”
Middle English
English
visitour
“one who visits”
Modern English
English
visitor
“a person who visits”