MANY words in English are derived from Latin words. Sometimes the words come by way of French words which originally came from Latin, and sometimes the words are coined (by poets or scientists, for example) directly from Latin words. In many cases, just one Latin word (or group of related words) can provide a dozen or more slightly different English words.
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.
MANY words in English are derived from Latin words. Sometimes the words come by way of French words which originally came from Latin, and sometimes the words are coined (by poets or scientists, for example) directly from Latin words. In many cases, just one Latin word (or group of related words) can provide a dozen or more slightly different English words. 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.
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