Borrowed fromItalianaprimavista.
Unadapted borrowing fromItaliana prima vista.
a prima vista
Literally,“at first sight”.
FromItalianaprimavista, meaning "at first glance". First part fromItaliana(“in, at, to”),in most cases fromLatinad(“to, towards, up to, at”), fromProto-Italic*ad(“toward, to, on, up to, for”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂éd(“to, at”),in certain cases, fromLatina(“from, away from, out of”), fromab(“from, away from, out of, down from”), fromProto-Italic*ab, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂epó(“off”). Middle part fromItalianprima(“before”), feminine singular ofprimo(“first”), fromLatinprīmus(“first”), from earlierprīsmos, fromProto-Italic*priisemos(“foremost, first”), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*preh₂-(“before”). Last part fromItalianvista(“sight, vision”), fromVulgar Latin*visita, fromLatinvīsa, inflected form ofvīsus(“looking”), perfect passive participle ofvideō(“I see, perceive”), fromProto-Italic*widēō(“see”), fromProto-Indo-European*weyd-(“to see”).