Imago reginae ab omnibus visa est.

Visa est is the perfect passive of video, videre, vidi, visum (to see).

Latin forms the perfect passive with:

• the perfect passive participle +
• a form of sum (to be)

So here:

• visa = seen
• est = is/was

Together, visa est means was seen or has been seen, depending on context.

Because visa must agree with imago.

The participle visus, visa, visum works like an adjective, so it has to match the noun it goes with in:

• gender
• number
• case

Here:

• imago is feminine
• singular
• nominative

So the correct form is visa.

Because imago is in the nominative singular, and in a passive sentence the thing being acted on becomes the subject.

So in this sentence, imago is the thing that was seen.

Even if Latin word order can move around, the case ending helps identify the subject more than the position does.

Reginae is genitive singular here: of the queen.

Latin often uses the genitive after nouns to show possession or relationship.
So:

• imago reginae = the image/portrait of the queen

A native English speaker may wonder whether reginae could be dative, since the form looks the same. In theory, yes, reginae can be either genitive singular or dative singular. But here the meaning and construction clearly point to the genitive: image of the queen, not image to/for the queen.

It means something like:

• the image of the queen
• the queen’s image
• often more naturally, the portrait of the queen

The genitive with imago is very common for saying whose image or likeness something is.

Because this is a passive sentence, and Latin regularly uses a/ab + ablative to express the personal agent: the person or people by whom something is done.

So:

• ab = by
• omnibus = all / everyone, in the ablative plural

Together:

• ab omnibus = by everyone or by all

Latin uses both a and ab before the ablative in this construction.

A common rule taught to beginners is:

• ab before a vowel or h
• a before a consonant

Since omnibus begins with a vowel, ab omnibus is exactly what you would expect.

Omnibus is the ablative plural of omnis, omne (all, every).

In this sentence it means all people or everyone, because the context is personal:

• ab omnibus = by everyone

Latin often uses omnes / omnibus in this broad human sense.

Because in the perfect passive, Latin normally uses a two-word form:

• participle + sum

So instead of a single word meaning was seen, Latin says:

• visa est

This is completely normal and is how the perfect passive is built.

Both can be possible, depending on context.

The Latin perfect can sometimes correspond to:

• English simple past: was seen
• English present perfect: has been seen

In many textbook sentences like this one, was seen is the most natural translation.

Latin word order is more flexible than English because Latin uses case endings to show grammatical function.

English depends heavily on position:

• The queen saw the image
• The image saw the queen

Those mean different things because the order changes.

Latin can move words around more freely because endings show what each word is doing. So Imago reginae ab omnibus visa est is perfectly normal even though it does not match standard English order word-for-word.

Yes, often they could.

For example, Latin could also say things like:

• Imago ab omnibus visa est
• Ab omnibus imago reginae visa est
• Imago visa est ab omnibus

The core meaning would stay the same as long as the forms remain clear.

Different orders can shift emphasis slightly, but the grammar stays recognizable because of the endings.

It is technically a participle, specifically the perfect passive participle.

A participle is a verbal adjective, so it has qualities of both:

• like a verb, it comes from video and expresses seen
• like an adjective, it agrees with imago

Then combined with est, it functions as part of the verb phrase visa est.

Yes.

A learner might expect an -o ending to be masculine or neuter, but imago is a third-declension feminine noun.

Its nominative singular is imago, and that is why the participle is feminine:

• imago ... visa est

So this is a good reminder that you cannot determine gender only from the final letter of the nominative form.

Because Classical Latin has no definite article like English the.

So imago can mean:

• an image
• the image
• a portrait
• the portrait

The context tells you which is best in translation.

The same is true for reginae:

• of a queen
• of the queen

In most contexts here, English naturally uses the.

Primarily an action in passive form: the image was seen.

But because the perfect passive uses a participle plus est, it can sometimes feel a little state-like in form. Still, in normal translation and understanding, this is simply the passive of someone saw the image:

• active idea: everyone saw the queen’s image
• passive form: the queen’s image was seen by everyone

So the sentence is best understood as a passive event.