ὁράω
Ancient Greek
verb
Definitions
- (intransitive) To look with the eyes
- (intransitive) To be able to see; (with negative) to be unable to see, to be blind
- (copulative) To look a certain way
- (transitive) To see, perceive, observe
- (transitive) To find out
- (transitive) To make sure
- (intransitive) To see with the mind, understand
- (transitive) To provide
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (heed, cover, defend, protect, burn, close, save, bend, turn, guard, rope, squirrel, envelop, boil, crook, notice, give heed, string, watch, speak, note, high, twist, perceive, tie, sense, blister, bond, blacken, shut, be wary, shelter, bind with a rope, highland, sketch an outline, become aware, take heed, stoat, make, cut, look out for, raised area, be aware, be watchful, tear, pay attention, scratch, observe, tuber, lump, work, be careful), *h₃ekʷ- (see, eye), *weyd- (see, know, behold, perceive, find, view, look at), *wer- (heed, cover, defend, protect, burn, close, save, bend, turn, guard, rope, squirrel, envelop, boil, crook, notice, give heed, string, watch, speak, note, high, twist, perceive, tie, sense, blister, bond, blacken, shut, be wary, shelter, bind with a rope, highland, sketch an outline, become aware, take heed, stoat, make, cut, look out for, raised area, be aware, be watchful, tear, pay attention, scratch, observe, tuber, lump, work, be careful).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*wer-
Gloss
heed, cover, defend, protect, burn, close, save, bend, turn, guard, rope, squirrel, envelop, boil, crook, notice, give heed, string, watch, speak, note, high, twist, perceive, tie, sense, blister, bond, blacken, shut, be wary, shelter, bind with a rope, highland, sketch an outline, become aware, take heed, stoat, make, cut, look out for, raised area, be aware, be watchful, tear, pay attention, scratch, observe, tuber, lump, work, be careful
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
弦
Emoji
🤭 📔
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -id English
- Hadean English
- aware English
- awarely English
- awareness English
- beware English
- guardrail English
- guide English
- hyperaware English
- idyll English
- idyllic English
- self-aware English
- unaware English
- video game English
- wary English
- evidentia Latin
- invidia Latin
- invidiōsus Latin
- oculus Latin
- prūdentia Latin
- re- Latin
- revereor Latin
- revidere Latin
- revideō Latin
- subvereor Latin
- verecundus Latin
- vereor Latin
- veretrum Latin
- videntem Latin
- video, vidēre, videō Latin
- videre Latin
- videō Latin
- vidēre Latin
- visum Latin
- visus Latin
- viverra Latin
- vīsitō Latin
- vīsiō Latin
- vīsus Latin
- ungewiss German
- weissagen German
- guarda- Italian
- guardabarriere Italian
- guardaboschi Italian
- guardabuoi Italian
- guardaspalle Italian
- guardia- Italian
- occhiazzurro Italian
- occhiceruleo Italian
- eidetisch Dutch, Flemish
- visueel Dutch, Flemish
- envisager French
- revue French
- ведение Russian
- -ειδής Ancient Greek
- εἰδητικός Ancient Greek
- εἰσοράω Ancient Greek
- εἴδομαι Ancient Greek
- εἴδωλον Ancient Greek
- εἶλαρ Ancient Greek
- θεωρέω Ancient Greek
- θεωρία Ancient Greek
- θεωρός Ancient Greek
- θεώρημα Ancient Greek
- μονοειδής Ancient Greek
- πιθηκοειδής Ancient Greek
- προοράω Ancient Greek
- σιγμοειδής Ancient Greek
- τιμωρέω Ancient Greek
- τῑμή Ancient Greek
- τῑμωρός Ancient Greek
- φρουρός Ancient Greek
- φρούριον Ancient Greek
- ἀΐδηλος Ancient Greek
- ἐφοράω Ancient Greek
- ἠθμοειδής Ancient Greek
- ἰδέα Ancient Greek
- ἰδέᾱ Ancient Greek
- ἰδανός Ancient Greek
- ἱστορία Ancient Greek
- ἱστορικός Ancient Greek
- ὀπή Ancient Greek
- ὄμμα Ancient Greek
- ὄπεας Ancient Greek
- ὄπις Ancient Greek
- ὅραμα Ancient Greek
- ὅρασις Ancient Greek
- ὅρᾱμᾰ Ancient Greek
- ὅρᾱμᾰ, ὅραμα Ancient Greek
- ὤρα Ancient Greek
- ῥομβοειδής Ancient Greek
- *dóru Proto-Indo-European
- *gʷʰer- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃ekʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃kʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃okʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃ókʷs Proto-Indo-European
- *n̥- Proto-Indo-European
- *n̥widḗs Proto-Indo-European
- *wedʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wer- Proto-Indo-European
- *werdʰo- Proto-Indo-European
- *werk'- Proto-Indo-European
- *wert- Proto-Indo-European
- *weyd- Proto-Indo-European
- *weydstos Proto-Indo-European
- *wideh₁(ye)- Proto-Indo-European
- *widéseh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *woyd-éye-ti Proto-Indo-European
- *wreyḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wr̥mis Proto-Indo-European
- *wéydos Proto-Indo-European
- *wéydseti Proto-Indo-European
- *wéydtus Proto-Indo-European
- *wéydtōr Proto-Indo-European
- *wóyde Proto-Indo-European
- *aikwernô Proto-Germanic
- *augô Proto-Germanic
- *blōstrą Proto-Germanic
- *fra- Proto-Germanic
- *frawītaną Proto-Germanic
- *gawissaz Proto-Germanic
- *gawitāną Proto-Germanic
- *hrītaną Proto-Germanic
- *maþlą Proto-Germanic
- *waraz Proto-Germanic
- *warduz Proto-Germanic
- *wardāną Proto-Germanic
- *wardō Proto-Germanic
- *wargaz Proto-Germanic
- *wargijaną Proto-Germanic
- *warjaną Proto-Germanic
- *warją Proto-Germanic
- *warkiz Proto-Germanic
- *warnōną Proto-Germanic
- *warīniz Proto-Germanic
- *weruz Proto-Germanic
- *witaną Proto-Germanic
- *witją Proto-Germanic
- *witniją Proto-Germanic
- *witraz Proto-Germanic
- *witōþą Proto-Germanic
- *wrītaną Proto-Germanic
- *wīsadōmaz Proto-Germanic
- *wīsaz Proto-Germanic
- *wīsijaną Proto-Germanic
- *wīsōną Proto-Germanic
- *wīsǭ Proto-Germanic
- *wītaną Proto-Germanic
- *wītwōdz Proto-Germanic
- viss Swedish
- wara Polish
- verjar Norwegian Nynorsk
- voren Norwegian Nynorsk
- -ol Old English
- dry Old English
- witnes Old English
- wittiġ Old English
- अक्षि Sanskrit
- निवेदन Sanskrit
- विदति Sanskrit
- विद्या Sanskrit
- वेद Sanskrit
- वेदि Sanskrit
- aware Middle English
- ben ware Middle English
- amhábhar Irish
- bithábhar Irish
- frithábhar Irish
- meánábhar Irish
- príomhábhar Irish
- ábharaí Irish
- andvitni Old Norse
- augabrá Old Norse
- augnamein Old Norse
- nǫkkurr Old Norse
- vari Old Norse
- varði Old Norse
- vissa Old Norse
- vitra Old Norse
- vitran Old Norse
- vitringr Old Norse
- vitrleikr Old Norse
- vitrleiksmaðr Old Norse
- vizkr Old Norse
- vísleikr Old Norse
- víss Old Norse
- víða Old Norse
- vǫr Old Norse
- úvíss Old Norse
- *naviděti Proto-Slavic
- *oko Proto-Slavic
- *okъno Proto-Slavic
- *variti Proto-Slavic
- *varъ Proto-Slavic
- *viděti Proto-Slavic
- *vidъ Proto-Slavic
- *věděti Proto-Slavic
- *věstь Proto-Slavic
- *věverica Proto-Slavic
- *vьrvь Proto-Slavic
- garison Old French
- guarde Old French
- regard Old French
- reward Old French
- vis Old French
- برم Persian
- گر Persian
- όραμα Greek (modern)
- όραση Greek (modern)
- gwedd Welsh
- wīzzago Old High German
- nav Latvian
- vērt Latvian
- ակն Old Armenian
- գերի Old Armenian
- գտանեմ Old Armenian
- վերմակ Old Armenian
- adbar Old Irish
- adbarda Old Irish
- feraid Old Irish
- fofera Old Irish
- wëssen Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- vizë Albanian
- vërej Albanian
- 𐌰𐍄𐍅𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 Gothic
- 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐍅𐍉𐌳𐍃 Gothic
- 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐌹𐍅𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌸 Gothic
- 𐌼𐌹𐌸𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐍅𐍉𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐍅𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹 Gothic
- 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐍅𐍉𐌳𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 Gothic
- 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐍅𐍉𐌳𐌹 Gothic
- 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐍅𐍉𐌳𐌹𐌸𐌰 Gothic
- 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍄𐍅𐍉𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃 Gothic
- 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌳𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃 Gothic
- 𐍅𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌳𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌴𐌹𐍃 Gothic
- witat Old Dutch
- *kowwaris Proto-Celtic
- *newēdyū Proto-Celtic
- *wid- Proto-Celtic
- *windeti Proto-Celtic
- *wiweros Proto-Celtic
- *wēdeti Proto-Celtic
- *wēdonts Proto-Celtic
- *wēdos Proto-Celtic
- *ɸarewēdyom Proto-Celtic
- *war- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *wayd- Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *wáras Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *wáytˢti Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *okʷelos Proto-Italic
- *werēōr Proto-Italic
- *widēō Proto-Italic
- *wardōn, *wardēn Frankish
- *wītan Frankish
- vaiduoklis Lithuanian
- ϩⲟⲣⲁⲙⲁ Coptic
- vīr Middle Persian
- wlm Middle Persian
- reguard xno
- *koke- Proto-Uralic
- *vidza Proto-Albanian
- *ak- Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *warH-, *wār- Proto-Iranian
- provorsus Old Latin
- warison ONF.
- 𒉿𒅈𒉡𒊻𒍣 Hittite
- 𒉿𒊏𒀀𒉌 Hittite
- *wiäime Proto-Tocharian
- *wäwé(n)- Proto-Tocharian
- *ak- bat-pro
- 𐀹𐀆 Mycenaean Greek