pourvoir
French
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to equip, provide, endow (someone de (de) with)
- (transitive) to fill (a seat, job vacancy)
- (intransitive) to provide (à (à) for)
- (pronominal) to provide oneself (de (de) with)
- (pronominal) to appeal (en (en) to)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French pourveoir inherited from Old French porveoir inherited from Latin prōvideō (I foresee, I act with foresight), videō (see, I see, observe, understand).
Origin
Latin
videō
Gloss
see, I see, observe, understand
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
見
Emoji
🙈 🪚
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- disprovide English
- dispurvey English
- preprovide English
- providable English
- provide English
- provider English
- providest English
- provideth English
- purvey English
- purveyeth English
- underprovide English
- unprovide English
- video English
- *visita Latin
- advisō Latin
- invideo Latin
- noctividus Latin
- pervideo Latin
- praevideo Latin
- provideo Latin
- provisio Latin
- prōvideō Latin
- prōvidēre Latin
- revideo Latin
- videō Latin
- visibilis Latin
- pourvoirie French
- pourvoyeur French
- vidéo French
- vídeo Spanish, Castilian
- *per- Proto-Indo-European
- *weyd- Proto-Indo-European
- vídeo Portuguese
- porveoir Old French
- porveu Old French
- vëoir, veoir Old French
- vidi Esperanto
- proveir Catalan, Valencian
- vídeo Galician
- pourveoir Middle French
- ved Aromanian
- purveer xno
- vedar Dalmatian
- vedé Neapolitan
- veré Neapolitan