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visitans

Visitans is a Latin term formed as the present active participle of the verb visitare, meaning "visiting" or "one who visits." In Latin texts it can function as an adjective, modifying a noun to indicate the act of visiting, or it can be used substantively to mean "the visitor" or "the one who visits."

Etymology: from visitare plus the present participle suffix -ans; standard declined as a third-declension participle, with

Usage: In medieval and ecclesiastical Latin, visitans appears in charters and glosses to refer to visiting

Modern usage: Outside scholarly philology, visitans is rarely used in English, and when it appears it is

See also: visit, visitor, visitation, visitator, visitare.

forms
that
align
with
Latin
grammar.
persons
or
to
ongoing
acts
of
visitation.
For
official
inspections
of
churches
or
monasteries,
the
noun
visitator
and
the
noun-form
visitatio
are
more
common
for
the
act
and
office,
while
visitans
serves
as
a
descriptive
or
narrative
label
in
certain
texts.
typically
as
a
quotation,
lemma
in
dictionaries,
or
as
a
transliteration
of
the
Latin
participle
in
discussions
of
Latin
grammar
or
textual
criticism.