Visited

Visited is the past tense and past participle of the verb visit. It indicates that someone or something has gone to or spent time in a place at some point in the past. It is used in a wide range of contexts, from travel to inspections.

Etymology: The verb visit comes from Latin visitare, meaning to go to see or attend. It entered English via Old French visiter or visite during the Middle Ages. The modern form visited reflects the standard English past tense construction with the suffix -ed.

Grammar and usage: As a finite verb, visited carries the usual subject-verb agreement in the past tense: I visited, you visited, he visited. It also functions as the past participle in perfect tenses: I have visited Paris. In passive constructions: Paris was visited by many tourists. As a participial adjective, it appears in phrases such as a well-visited city, though such usage is less common than the noun form of the base verb.

Computing and data contexts: In graph algorithms and data processing, a marker often labeled visited records which nodes have already been encountered to prevent repeated work. In web analytics or user interfaces, a page or screen may be described as visited when the user has loaded it, differentiating it from unvisited content.

Cross-linguistic notes: Equivalents include visitado in Spanish, visité in French, and besucht in German, all reflecting shared Latin and Romance language roots. The word remains a common component in travel writing, reporting, and technical descriptions of processes that involve prior exposure to locations or items.