A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

video, videre, vidi, visum, 2., in the indicative voice: to see (with the eyes) but also with the other senses. One special meaning of the passive voice (to be seen) is 'it seems' or 'appears,' 'they seem,' etc. with the adverb ut or uti, meaning 'as;' see apparently; see vidi;

passive voice:

singular plural

person 1  videor   'I seem'                videmur     'we seem'  


person 2  videris 'you seem'               videmini  'you (pl.) seem'  


person 3  videtur 'he, she, it seems'      videntur  'they seem'

est videre: it is to be seen; you may see; it can be seen;

- [term] Loculamentum est camera quaedam seclusa & distincta in seminum vasculis, uti videre est in capitulis Papaverum. Jun. [in English]] ‘a Cell’ (Ray), the loculamentum [= locule] is a kind of cell separate and distinct in the vascula [i.e. seed vessel or capsule] of the seeds, as can be seen in the capitula of Papaver.

viderim: first-person singular perfect active subjunctive: I may have seen, observed;

- [alga] fila strati medullaris versus peripheriam quoque horizontaliter egrediuntur (si recto viderim), at inter cellulas majores strati medii sparsissima (Agardh), the filaments of the medullary layer toward the periphery also horizontally arising (if I may have observed correctly), and very scattered among the larger cells of the middle layer.

videāris: second-person singular present passive subjunctive; you may, could seem to see for yourself (something); you could perceive for yourself; + dat. of person;

- [fungi] sphaerulae parvae, fragiliuscula, vetustiorum paucae dimidiatae: ostiolum vix ullum, ni passim rudimentum eius aliquod videre tibi videaris (S&A), the sphaerules are small, somewhat more fragile, a few of the older ones halved: there is scarcely any ostiole, except that here and there you may think to yourself to see some vestige of it.

videri: present passive infinitive: videri 'to be seen; to seem, to appear.' - ut videtur (adv. phrase), as you will, as it seems, apparently.

- chloroplastus ut videtur materiam lipidicam continens, chloroplast apparently [as it seems] containing lipid material.

- sporae triletae vel ut videtur monoletae, spores trilete or apparently monolete.

- ut species Rosacearum videtur, it seems as a species of the Rosaceae.

- sed sphaerulae nigrae sunt, virore quodam (heterogeneo,ut videtur) interdum obductae, at numquam canae (S&A), but the sphaerules are a [shining] black, sometimes covered with a certain greenness (heterogeneous, it seems), but never grayish-white.

- frons ex icone pedalis videtur, frond according to the illustration appears to be one foot long (Stearn 1983).

- plantae ut videtur dioeciae, plants apparently dioecious.

- ut monstrum haec capsulam videtur, this capsule appears as a monster (freak).

- ut petalum floris folia videntur, the leaves appear as the petal of a flower.

- sic tenuis ut charta videtur, it appears as thin as paper.

- Quinquelobus Benj. in L. est genus spurium, ut videtur ex speciebus 2 Dopatrii compositum, Quinquelobus is a spurious genus, composed, apparently, of two species of Dopatriu[m].

- [Sphaeria setacea: fungi] at porro varia folia sicca (querna, faginea, betulina etc.) setularum visum fugientium , bulbillo tecto (an sphaerulae?) innatarum gregibus saepenumero horrent (S&A), and furthermore, on many occasions various (oaken, beechen, birchen, etc.) dry leaves bristling with groups of setulae seen as disappearing [i.e. ephemeral], adherent to [i.e. at the apex of] a hidden [i.e. covered] bulbil (perhaps a sphaerula?).