## Etymology
From French prévision, from Late Latin praevisio, from Latin praevidere ('to see beforehand'), from prae- ('before') + videre ('to see').

## AI Etymology
Prevision comes from French prévision, from Late Latin praevisio, from Latin praevidere ('to see beforehand'), from prae- ('before') + videre ('to see'). The historical chain includes Latin praevidere and Latin videre. The quoted older senses, "to see beforehand", "before", and "to see", supply the semantic anchors for prevision. The formation is best read as compound and borrowed: the word prevision carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "foresight or foreknowledge of the future". English derivatives include previsional and previsionary; related English forms include vision, visionary, and provision. The result is a noun whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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