"See" is an English equivalent of the Latin root vis-. It also serves as the translation of the alternate Latin root vid-. The pronunciation will be "wihs" in Church and classical Latin.
It was originally Latin.
Vis is the root word of visibility. This root means to see.
Force; power., Physical force., Moral power.
The Latin word vis means "power, force."
The Latin root words vis and its variant vid both mean “see.” These Latin roots are the word origin of a good number of English vocabulary words, including visual, invisible, provide, and evidence.
Vis, all by itself, means "power, strength, force." It often appears in the plural with the same meaning, as in the famous quotation from Virgil's Aeneid, "vires acquirit eundo" - "it gains strength as it goes."Vis- as a root of English words involving seeing such as visible, vision, revise, etc., is from visus, the past participle of the verb videre meaning "to see."
Vis animae means "strength of spirit/will."
'Vis a vis' in Latin means 'face to face' or 'in relation to'. It is often used to compare or contrast two things directly.
The English word energy is said in Latin as the word vis. In Italian it is said as energia and in German it is said as energie.
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I'm thinking it's kinda Mano-a-Mano. Vis means strength, or brute force. it means the power of the force.