different between visage vs physiognomy

English

Etymology

From Middle English visage, from Anglo-Norman and from Old French visage, from vis, from Vulgar Latin as if *vis?ticum, from Latin visus (“a look, vision”), from vid?re (“to see”); see vision.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z?d?/

Noun

visage (plural visages)

1. Countenance; appearance; one's face.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:countenance

Related terms

• visaged
• envisage
• evidence
• vision
• visionary
• visual
• visualization
• visualize

Translations

Further reading

• visage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• visage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Veigas

French

Etymology

From Old French visage, from vis (from Latin visus) + -age, or possibly a Vulgar Latin *vis?ticum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.za?/

Noun

visage m (plural visages)

1. face (anatomy)

Synonyms

• (vulgar) tronche
• (slang) bouille
• (vulgar) gueule
• face (only used in certain constructions, or in Canada)
• figure

Derived terms

Further reading

• “visage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French visage.

Noun

visage (plural visages)

1. (anatomy) face

Synonyms

• face

Descendants

• English: visage

Old French

Etymology

vis +? -age, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *vis?ticum, from Latin visus. Compare Old Occitan vizatge.

Noun

visage m (oblique plural visages, nominative singular visages, nominative plural visage)

1. (anatomy) face

Synonyms

• vis
• face
• volt

Descendants

• Middle English: visage
  • English: visage
• French: visage

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman phisenomie, Middle French phisonomie et al., ultimately from Late Latin physiognomia, from Ancient Greek ????????????? (phusiogn?monía, “the science or art of judging a man by his features”), from ????? (phúsis, “physique, appearance”) + ?????? (gn?m?n, “one that knows or examines, an interpreter, discerner”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f?zi??n?mi/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /f?zi??n?mi/

Noun

physiognomy (countable and uncountable, plural physiognomies)

1. The art or pseudoscience of deducing the predominant temper and other characteristic qualities of the mind from the outward appearance, especially from the features of the face.
2. The face or countenance, with respect to the temper of the mind; particular configuration, cast, or expression of countenance, as denoting character.
3. The art of telling fortunes by inspection of the features.
4. The general appearance or aspect of a thing, without reference to its scientific characteristics.

Alternative forms

• fisnomie (obsolete)
• visnomie (obsolete)
• visnomy (obsolete)

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:countenance

Derived terms

• physiognomist

Translations