EuroLex/F/Vis-à-vis

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  • Original language: French
  • Original form and meaning: vis-à-vis 'face to face, counterpart, opposite number, love seat'


(Note: If the status is not specifically indicated then the word is stylistically neutral and generally used; if earlier meaning and status equals current use the former may be expressed by writing "dito". Cf. also the project guidelines.)


Language Form Date of Borrowing (and Obsolescence) Current Meaning and Status Earlier Meanings and Statusses Source
Catalan ... ... '...' '...' ...
Croatian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Czech ... ... '...' '...' ...
Danish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Dutch ... ... '...' '...' ...
English vis-à-vis 18th c. 1. ' a light carriage for two persons sitting face to face', 2. 'one or other of two persons or things facing, or situated opposte to, each other', 3. 'a counterpart, an opposite number', 4. 'a meeting face to face, an encounter' '...' OED
Estonian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Finnish ... ... '...' '...' ...
French ... ... '...' '...' ...
Frisian ... ... '...' '...' ...
German vis à vis First half of 18th c. 1. 'opposite to', 2. 'neighbouring' (dial.) '...' Birken-Silvermann 2003: 140/141
Hungarian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Irish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Italian visavi, vis à vis 1877 1. 'opposite to, kind of seat', 2. 'mirror cabinet' (dial., near Rome) '...' Birken-Silvermann 2003: 140/141
Latvian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Lithuanian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Maltese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Norwegian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Polish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Portuguese ... ... '...' '...' ...
Rumantsch ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovak ... ... '...' '...' ...
Slovenian ... ... '...' '...' ...
Spanish ... ... '...' '...' ...
Swedish ... ... '...' '...' ...

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