vis-à-vis
French
adv
Definitions
- (archaic) Facing, face-to-face.
Etymology
Compound from French vis (face, screw, winding stairs) + French à (to, various prepositions, on the)+ French vis (face, screw, winding stairs).
Origin
French
vis
Gloss
face, screw, winding stairs
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
顔
Emoji
☠️ ☹️ ☺️ ⛑️ 🌚 🌛 🌜️ 🌝 🌞 🌬️ 🐭 🐮 🐯 🐰 🐱 🐲 🐳 🐴 🐵 🐶 🐷 🐸 🐹 🐺 🐻 🐼 🐽 👀 👁️ 👹 👺 👻 👼 👽️ 👾 👿 💀 💁 💆 💆♀️ 💆♂️ 💏 💩 🗣️ 🗿 😀 😁 😂 😃 😄 😅 😆 😇 😈 😉 😊 😋 😌 😍 😎 😏 😐️ 😑 😒 😓 😔 😕 😖 😗 😘 😙 😚 😛 😜 😝 😞 😟 😠 😡 😢 😣 😤 😥 😦 😧 😨 😩 😪 😫 😬 😭 😮 😯 😰 😱 😲 😳 😴 😵 😶 😷 😸 😹 😺 😻 😼 😽 😾 😿 🙀 🙁 🙂 🙃 🙄 🙅 🙆 🙇 🙈 🙉 🙊 🙋 🙍 🙎 🤐 🤑 🤒 🤓 🤔 🤕 🤖 🤗 🤠 🤡 🤢 🤣 🤤 🤥 🤦 🤦♀️ 🤦♂️ 🤧 🤩 🤷 🥸 🦁 🦄 🦊
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- apeak English
- vis-a-vis English
- vis-à-vis English
- vis-à-vis German
- à German
- à Hungarian
- ad Italian
- vijs Dutch, Flemish
- à Dutch, Flemish
- adroit French
- afin French
- amener French
- amâtiner French
- astheure French
- auquel French
- auxquelles French
- auxquels French
- putaclic French
- touche-à-tout French
- tournevis French
- vis French
- visière French
- visser French
- à French
- à Norwegian Bokmål
- à Swedish
- ビス Japanese
- vis-à-vis Polish
- vis-a-vis Danish
- a Old French
- viz Old French
- ad Ido
- vít Vietnamese
- blackaviced Scots
- ann Haitian, Haitian Creole
- annou Haitian, Haitian Creole