Word Origin Summary

A prima vista is attested in Norwegian Bokmål. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. primaItalianderived from
2. *adProto-Italicderived from
3. 𐤀Phoenicianborrowed from
4. vīsaLatinderived from
5. prīmusLatinderived from
6. vistaItalianderived from
7. *widēōProto-Italicderived from
8. *preh₂-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from

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