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語源

Borrowed from Italian vista (“view, sight”), from visto, past participle of vedere (“to see”), from Latin vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision, video, visa.

発音

• IPA: /ˈvɪstə/, /ˈviːstə/
• 韻: -ɪstə

名詞

vista (plural vistas)

1. A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through some opening, avenue or passage.
   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 271:

     The sun soon broke forth from that one dark cloud, gradually melting into light; and the sunbeams and the glittering rain went driving together through the forest glades—those long vistas, of which the slender deer seemed the sole habitants.

   • 1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 136:

     We had our reward for our high camp and early start, for the sky was still clear, the view magnificent, with fresh vistas to the north of mountains in Tibet, of Gurla Mandhata, massive, majestic to the northeast, and further to the north, a distant pyramid, Kailash, most holy of all mountains in both Hindu and Buddhist mythology.

2. A site offering such a view.
3. (figuratively) A vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination.

   a vista of pleasure to come

   dim vistas of the past

   • 2017 December 27, Michael Andor Brodeur, “The meme class of 2017”, in The Boston Globe‎:

     And while our discourse might be a disaster area, the imaginative vistas of the Internet are far more vast than the modest plot of our feeds.

派生語

• vistaed

関連する語

• visto

動詞

vista (third-person singular simple present vistas, present participle vistaing, simple past and past participle vistaed)

1. (transitive) To make a vista or landscape of.
   • 1896, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Eugene Aram:

     The night had now closed in, and its darkness was only relieved by the wan lamps that vistaed the streets, and a few dim stars that struggled through the reeking haze that curtained the great city.

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “vista”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “vista”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

アナグラム

• vitas