Borrowing from Latin _prōvideō_ (“I foresee, I act with foresight”).

* Rhymes: -aɪd * IPA(key): /pɹəˈvaɪd/

PROVIDE (_third-person singular simple present_ PROVIDES, _present participle_ PROVIDING, _simple past and past participle_ PROVIDED) * To make a living; earn money for necessities. _It is difficult to PROVIDE for my family working on minimum wage._ * To act to prepare for something. * To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate. _The contract PROVIDES that the work be well done._ _I'll lend you the money, PROVIDED that you pay it back by Monday._ * To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs. _Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will PROVIDE it._ _We aim to PROVIDE the local community with more green spaces._ * To furnish (with), cause to be present. * Arbuthnot Rome […] was well PROVIDED with corn. * To make possible or attainable. _He PROVIDES us with an alternative option._ * Milton Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit / As the kind, hospitable woods PROVIDE. * (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee. (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?) * To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See _provisor_. (Can we find and add a quotation of Prescott to this entry?) DERIVED TERMS * provider RELATED TERMS * provision TRANSLATIONS

* provinde

PROVIDE * second-person plural imperative of _provir_

PROVIDE * third-person singular past historic of _provedere_

* deprivo, deprivò * provedi

PRŌVIDĒ * second-person singular present active imperative of _prōvideō_