prevedere Italian · revision 39329

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=before 1292, Bono Giamboni|origins=la videō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /pre.veˈde.re/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''prevedere''' (first-person singular present prevédo, first-person singular past historic prevìdi, past participle prevìsto or (less popular) prevedùto, first-person singular future prevedrò or prevederò, auxiliary avére)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a learned word, [[bor|la|praevideō|t=to foresee]], made of [[m|la|prae-|t=before]] and [[m|la|videō|t=to see]], and conjugated like Italian [[vedere]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Devoto 1968) Latin gave the family also [[previdente]], from the present participle, and [[previdenza]], from Late Latin [[m|la-lat|praevidentia]]; [[preveggente]] and [[preveggenza]] were remade on [[veggente]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010) The same Latin verb gave [[fr|prévoir]] and [[es|prever]].^(Nocentini 2010)^(DEI|3076)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Bono Giamboni, before 1292, uses the verb for seeing in the mind beforehand, judging an event possible or certain before it happens.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Old texts also used ''prevedere'' for “to provide for” a need or a danger, a sense the GDLI records from the Italian translation of Gregory the Great and, from Venetian documents.^(GDLI) The modern bureaucratic and legal sense “to provide for, contemplate” in a law or rule is recorded from the Italian Constitution of 1947: ''il caso non è previsto dalla legge''.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010) Its derivatives followed: [[previsione]] (before 1363), with ''previsione del tempo'' “weather forecast” from 1871, and [[prevedibile]] in 1848.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Before 1292 – Bono Giamboni uses ''prevedere''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1363 – ''Previsione'' appears in Matteo Villani.^(DELI 1999)

+ * Before 1494 – Poliziano uses the participle ''previsto''.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1848 – ''Prevedibile'' is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1871 – ''Previsione del tempo'' “weather forecast” is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1947 – The Italian Constitution uses the verb for “to provide for, regulate”.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|foresee]], to know or announce in advance what will happen: ''Nessuno poteva prevedere una crisi così grave.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To [[m|en|forecast]], expect or think likely, on the basis of evidence: ''Per il fine settimana si prevede pioggia.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # Of a law, rule or plan: to provide for, include: ''Il contratto prevede una penale.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # To plan, have in one's programme: ''Per sabato ho previsto una gita.''^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[previsione]]

+ * [[previsto]]

+ * [[prevedibile]]

+ * [[imprevedibile]]

+ * [[imprevisto]]

+ * [[previdente]]

+ * [[previdenza]]

+ * [[previdenziale]]

+ * [[preveggente]]

+ * [[preveggenza]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[vedere]]

+ * [[la|praevideo]]

+ * [[fr|prévoir]]

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+ ==Usage notes==

+ The future and conditional are usually ''prevederò'', ''prevederei'', not the contracted forms of ''vedere''; the past participle is ''previsto'', with literary ''preveduto''.^(Zingarelli 2010)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}