“seeth” is a form of
see
UK /siː/ · US /si/ verb, interjection, noun, proper noun
Forms sees seeing saw seen seent seed sawn seest sawest seeth
- verb (transitive) To perceive or detect someone or something with the eyes, or as if by sight.
- verb To witness or observe by personal experience. “Now I've seen it all!”
- verb To watch (a movie) at a cinema, or a show on television etc. “I saw the latest Tarantino flick last week.”
- verb To form a mental picture of, to perceive in a certain way. “I see it as essential that there should be somewhere to park.”
- verb (figuratively) To understand. “Do you see what I mean?”
- verb (figuratively) To come to a realization of having been mistaken or misled. “They're blind to the damage they do, but someday they'll see.”
- verb (transitive) To foresee, predict, or prophesy. “The oracle saw the destruction of the city.”
- verb (used in the imperative) Used to emphasise a proposition. “You see, Johnny, your Dad isn't your real father.”
- interjection Introducing an explanation. “See, in order to win the full prize we would have to come up with a scheme to land a rover on the Moon.”
- noun (Christianity) A diocese or archdiocese: a region of a church, generally headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
- noun (Christianity) The office of a bishop or archbishop.
- noun A seat; a site; a place where sovereign, autonomous, or autocephalous power is exercised.
- proper noun An English surname.
- proper noun A surname from German.
- proper noun A surname from Hokkien.
Synonyms
follow get understand go out behold descry espy observe view decern notice pipe spot look well so realize realise witness find visualize visualise envision project fancy figure picture image consider reckon
Etymology
From Middle English seen, from Old English sēon (“to see, look, behold, perceive, observe, discern, understand, know”), from Proto-West Germanic *sehwan, from Proto-Germanic *sehwaną (“to see”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to see, notice”).
Etymology 1 sense 9 is a calque of Latin vidē (“see (thou)”, 2ⁿᵈ person singular imperative), which was also borrowed into academic English (see vide) as well as Portuguese.
Cognate with Scots see, sei (“to see”), Yola sau, ze, zee, zey, zie (“to see”), North Frisian se, si, siin, siine, siinj, sä, säie (“to see”), Saterland Frisian sjo (“to see”), West Frisian sjen (“to see”), Bavarian segn (“to see”), Central Franconian sehn, senn (“to see”), Dutch zien (“to see”), Low German sehn (“to see; to look”), German sehen (“to see”), Limburgish séëne, zeen (“to see”), Luxembourgish gesinn (“to see”), Alemannic German gseh (“to see”), Mòcheno sechen (“to see”), Vilamovian zaon (“to see”), Yiddish זען (zen, “to see”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish se (“to see”), Elfdalian sją̊ (“to see”), Faroese síggja (“to see”), Icelandic sjá (“to see”), Norwegian Nynorsk sjå (“to see”), sia (“to foretell”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌹𐍈𐌰𐌽 (saiƕan, “to see”), and more distantly with Albanian shof, shoh (“to see”), Latin secūtus, sequūtus (“followed”), Ancient Greek ἕπομαι (hépomai, “to follow, obey”), Persian ا (a), از (az), ز (ze, “from, of”), Luwian 𒁕𒀀𒌋𒄿𒅖 (“eye”), Sanskrit सच् (sac, “to be associated with, familiar with, have to do with”).
From Middle English se, see, from Old French see, sié (“seat, throne; town, capital; episcopal see”), from Latin sēdēs (“seat”), referring to the bishop's throne or chair (compare seat of power) in the cathedral; related to the Latin verb sedēre (“to sit”). Doublet of sedes.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised. [Obs.]
- noun Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome. Apostolic see. See under Apostolic.
- verb To perceive by the eye; to have knowledge of the existence and apparent qualities of by the organs of sight; to behold; to descry; to view.
- verb To perceive by mental vision; to form an idea or conception of; to note with the mind; to observe; to discern; to distinguish; to understand; to comprehend; to ascertain.
Etymology [OE. se, see, OF. se, sed, sied, fr. L. sedes a seat, or the kindred sedere to sit. See Sit, and cf. Siege.]
Etymology [OE. seen, sen, seon, As. seón; akin to OFries. sia, D. zien, OS. & OHG. sehan, G. sehen, Icel. sja, Sw. se, Dan. see, Goth. saíhwan, and probably to L. sequi to follow (and so originally meaning, to follow with the eyes). Gr. sac. Cf. Sight, Sun to follow.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “see”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details