from Old French visiter or Latin visitare 'go to see', frequentative of visare 'to view', from videre 'to see'.
Originally of the deity, later of pastors and doctors (c. 1300), general sense of "pay a call" is from mid-13c
来自拉丁语 videre,看，来自 PIE*weid,看，知晓，词源同 video, wise, wit, -it，表反复或过去分词格。
该词原指神灵到人间巡视，后词义通用化。