vista

Meanings

Noun

• A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage.
• A site offering such a view.
• A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination.

Verb

• To make a vista or landscape of.

Origin

• Borrowed from Italian vista ("view, sight"), from visto, past participle of vedere, from Latin vidēre, present active infinitive of videō. Compare vision, video, visa.