English Online Dictionary. What means provide? What does provide mean?
English
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English providen, from Latin prōvidēre (“to foresee, act with foresight”). Doublet of purvey.
Pronunciation
- enPR: prə-vīdʹ, IPA(key): /pɹəˈvaɪd/
- Rhymes: -aɪd
- Hyphenation: pro‧vide
Verb
provide (third-person singular simple present provides, present participle providing, simple past and past participle provided)
- To make a living; earn money for necessities.
- To act to prepare for something.
- To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
- To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
- To furnish (with), cause to be present.
- To make possible or attainable.
- (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee, to consider in advance.
- To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
Usage notes
- As seen in the examples, when not used with that for previous conditions, provide is used with the prepositions for (beneficiary; also without preposition, usual for pronouns) and with (object).
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
- provision
Translations
Anagrams
- prevoid
Galician
Alternative forms
- provinde
Verb
provide
- second-person plural imperative of provir
Italian
Verb
provide
- third-person singular past historic of provedere
Anagrams
- deprivo, deprivò, provedi
Latin
Etymology
From prōvidus (“prophetic, prudent, cautious”) + -ē, from prōvideō (“foresee, be cautious”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈproː.u̯i.deː/, [ˈproːu̯ɪd̪eː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpro.vi.de/, [ˈprɔːvid̪e]
Adverb
prōvidē (comparative prōvidius, superlative prōvidissimē)
- carefully, prudently
Verb
prōvidē
- second-person singular present active imperative of prōvideō
Noun
prōvide
- singular vocative of prōvidus
References
- “provide”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- provide in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.