revisal

C2+ Topic:Actions & Processes

US /rɪˈvaɪzəl/ UK /rɪˈvaɪzəl/ See IPA manual

Meanings

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noun
the act of revising or amending something

The manuscript underwent a thorough revisal before publication.

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Synonyms

1 noun · the act of revising or... revision amendment emendation correction alteration modification

Word family

Related forms revise revisionreviserrevisory

Etymology

From revise + -al, from Latin revisere ('to look at again, revisit'), from re- ('again') + visere ('to behold'), frequentative of videre ('to see').

revisere Latin videre Latin

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# revisal

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /rɪˈvaɪzəl/
**IPA (UK):** /rɪˈvaɪzəl/

## Meanings
1. the act of revising or amending something

## Examples
- The manuscript underwent a thorough revisal before publication.

## Synonyms
- revision
- amendment
- emendation
- correction
- alteration
- modification

## Related Forms
- revise
- revision
- reviser
- revisory

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: revisere
- Root: videre

## Etymology
From revise + -al, from Latin revisere ('to look at again, revisit'), from re- ('again') + visere ('to behold'), frequentative of videre ('to see').

## AI Etymology
Revisal comes from revise + -al, from Latin revisere ('to look at again, revisit'), from re- ('again') + visere ('to behold'), frequentative of videre ('to see'). The historical chain includes Latin revisere and Latin videre. The quoted older senses, "to look at again, revisit", "again", "to behold", and "to see", supply the semantic anchors for revisal. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, and borrowed: the word revisal carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "the act of revising or amending something". Related English forms include revise, revision, reviser, and revisory. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Actions & Processes
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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