Revised

How to spell revised

7 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce revised

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does revised mean?

1. verbLooked over and changed something in order to correct or improve it.
2. adjectiveHaving been changed or corrected from an earlier version.

Revised in a sentence

• verb

  The editor revised the report after the figures changed.

• adjective

  The revised edition of the textbook includes three new chapters.

• verb

  We revised our travel plans once the flight was cancelled.

• adjective

  Please use the revised schedule rather than the old one.

Where does revised come from?

Language of origin: Latin

This word descends from the Latin verb revisere, meaning 'to look at again' or 'to revisit', which was a frequentative form built on revidere, itself from re- 'again' and videre 'to see'. The same videre root, meaning literally 'to see', sits inside a whole family of familiar English words such as 'vision', 'visible', 'evident' and 'supervise'. English took the verb 'revise' from the French reviser in the sixteenth century, originally in the sense of looking over something once more to check or correct it. From there the meaning broadened to mean altering and improving a written or planned thing in the light of a fresh look. The form 'revised' is simply the past tense and past participle, and the spelling stays regular because 'revise' already ends in a silent e, so you only add a d; the trap is remembering the s rather than a z in the British spelling, even though the sound is a z.

How the word is built

• re- (again)
• vis (from Latin videre/visere: to see, to look at)
• -ed (past tense / past participle suffix)