provisus Latin · revision 34674

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=98–115 AD, Tacitus|origins=ine-pro *uid-eh1-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prōvīsus''' m (genitive prōvīsūs); fourth declension, found only in the ablative singular ''prōvīsū''^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|prōvideō|-tus|t1=to foresee, provide]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL) The verb is a compound of [[m|la|prō-]] and [[m|la|videō|t=to see]],^(de Vaan 2008) which goes back to [[itc-pro|*wid-ē-|t=to see]] and [[ine-pro|*uid-eh1-|t=to see]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Lewis and Short call it Tacitean,^(Lewis & Short 1879) and Köbler records it first in Tacitus,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of seeing ahead: in a battle at night ''ne oculi quidem provisu iuvabant'', “not even the eyes helped by looking ahead”.^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Tacitus also uses it of foreseeing a danger, of the providence of the gods, and with a genitive of making provision for affairs.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) In Ecclesiastical Latin it means provision or precaution,^(Stelten 1995) and in medieval British Latin forethought, including divine providence.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 98–115 AD – Tacitus uses it of looking ahead, of foresight and of making provision.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The faculty of seeing ahead.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # [[m|en|foresight|alt=Foresight]], forethought;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) with a genitive, the making of provision for.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' Provision, [[m|en|precaution]].^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ ''Prōvīsus, -a, -um'' is also the perfect participle of [[prōvideō]], “foreseen, provided for”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) Niermeyer records the medieval phrases ''prōvīsō quod'' and ''prōvīsō ut'', “provided that”.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}