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Vision comes from Middle English visioun, from Anglo-Norman visioun and Old French vision, from Latin vīsiō ‘seeing, sight’, from videō ‘to see’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weyd-¹‘to see’reconstructed
2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*widéh₁yeti¹reconstructed
3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*widēō²‘to see’reconstructed
4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvideō³‘to see’
5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvisus³‘that which is seen’
6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEvīsiō³‘vision’
7. Old Frenchc. 842–1400vision³
8. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400visioun³
9. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500visioun³‘a vision’
10. Englishearliest quotation c. 1610–1611vision³

1. ¹ Wiktionary, Proto-Italic *widēō
2. ² Wiktionary, Latin video, which cites LIV
3. ³ Wiktionary, English vision
4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, The Winters Tale: “[…]For to a Viſion ſo apparant, Rumor / Cannot…”.