provide

English

/pɹəˈvaɪd/

verb
Definitions
  • 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) To foresee.
  • To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin prōvideō (I foresee, I act with foresight) root from Proto-Indo-European *per- (risk, bring forth, fare, through, try, go, traverse, across, carry forth, bring forward, produce, procure, forth, before, attempt, over, go over, pass through, go through, beyond, research, bear, forward, penetrate, put across, sell, lead across, front, formerly, dare, throughout, ferry, cross, transfer, pierce, strike, a going, peril, first, beat, out, passage, of, bring carry over, pass, next, in front).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*per-

Gloss

risk, bring forth, fare, through, try, go, traverse, across, carry forth, bring forward, produce, procure, forth, before, attempt, over, go over, pass through, go through, beyond, research, bear, forward, penetrate, put across, sell, lead across, front, formerly, dare, throughout, ferry, cross, transfer, pierce, strike, a going, peril, first, beat, out, passage, of, bring carry over, pass, next, in front

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