different between provide vs itinerary

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?vide? (“I foresee, I act with foresight”). Doublet of purvey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???va?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Verb

provide (third-person singular simple present provides, present participle providing, simple past and past participle provided)

1. To make a living; earn money for necessities.

2. To act to prepare for something.

3. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.

4. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
5. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations

     Rome […] was generally well provided with corn.

6. To make possible or attainable.
7. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.

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8. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
   • 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic

     provide such natives to the to the higher dignities of the church

Usage notes

As seen in the examples, when not used with that for previous conditions, provide is used with the prepositions for (beneficiary; also without preposition, usual for pronouns) and with (object).

Derived terms

• provider

Related terms

• provision

Translations

Anagrams

• prevoid

Galician

Alternative forms

• provinde

Verb

provide

1. second-person plural imperative of provir

Italian

Verb

provide

1. third-person singular past historic of provedere

Anagrams

• deprivo, deprivò
• provedi

Latin

Etymology

From pr?vidus (“prophetic, prudent, cautious”) +? -?, from pr?vide? (“foresee, be cautious”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pro?.u?i.de?/, [?p?o?u??d?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pro.vi.de/, [?p???vid??]

Adverb

pr?vid? (comparative pr?vidius, superlative pr?vidissim?)

1. carefully, prudently

Verb

pr?vid?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pr?vide?

Noun

pr?vide

1. singular vocative of pr?vidus

References

• provide in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• provide in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Late Latin itinerarius (“pertaining to a journey”), neuter itiner?rium (“an account of a journey, a road-book”), from iter (“a way, journey”); see itinerate, itinerant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /a??t?n??i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /a??t?n????i/

Noun

itinerary (plural itineraries)

1. A written schedule of activities for a vacation or road trip.
2. A route or proposed route of a journey.
3. An account or record of a journey.
4. A guidebook for travellers.

Translations

Adjective

itinerary (comparative more itinerary, superlative most itinerary)

1. itinerant; travelling from place to place; done on a journey

   • It were rather an itinerary circuit of justice than a progress.

Further reading

• itinerary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• itinerary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• itinerary at OneLook Dictionary Search