On this page we shall look at how just two verbs which mean “carry” in Latin have, with the addition of some Latin prepositions, enriched English vocabulary to a great extent. Of course, once an English word has been invented from some Latin terms, that word then provides many other words. The word provide, for instance, derives from the latin for “foresee,” from pro- (meaning “before”) and videre (meaning “to see”): from the notion of foreseeing someone’s requirements comes the meaning of actually attending to those requirements; other related words are provider, provision, provisional, and providence.