visitation

See also: Visitation

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌvɪzɪˈteɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

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, […]

2. An official visit to inspect or examine something.
3. An encounter with supernatural beings such as ghosts or aliens.
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

• Nun of the Visitation

 

Translations

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
• Swedish: visit (sv)

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)

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

• vitiations

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

visitation f (plural visitations)

1. visitation (by a spirit)

Further reading

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

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīsitātiō.

Noun

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

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (visitation, supplement)
• visitation on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Swedish

Noun

visitation c

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

Declension

Declension of visitation
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	visitation	visitationen	visitationer	visitationerna
Genitive	visitations	visitationens	visitationers	visitationernas

Related terms

• visitera

References

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