English → Latin
“provident” in Latin
caveōto take precautions, beware, take care; to guard against, attend to a thing for a person, provide; to guard against, to prōvidusprophetic; provident, prudent, circumspect, cautiouscircumspiciōto look around, over, for, upon; to survey, examine or review; to seek or search for, look about for something with desicōnsīderōto examine, look at or inspect, survey; to consider, reflect, contemplate, meditatecūriōsusCareful, diligent, thoughtful, devoted.; Elaborate, complicated.; That injures himself by care; careworn, emaciated, was
The English word provident itself goes back to Latin videō, through prōvidēns.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
provident
cautus: providus: circumspectus: consideratus. (The words are found in this connection and order.) cautus providusque; cautus ac diligens. To be provident in anything, curam adhibere de or in aliqua re; curiosum or diligentem esse in aliqua re; diligentiam adhibere ad aliquid or in aliqua re; curam conferre ad aliquid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for provident?
- The usual Latin words for “provident” are caveō, prōvidus, circumspiciō; also cōnsīderō, cūriōsus. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.