## Meanings
1. To give someone something they need or want, especially support or food.
2. To give a place or thing something useful or necessary.
3. To earn enough money to support your family.
4. To state in a contract or law what must happen in certain situations.

## Examples
- The hotel provides lunch for all its guests.
- They provided the classroom with new computers.
- He works two jobs to provide for his children.
- The contract provides that the work must be finished by June.

## Derived Forms
- disprovide
- foreprovide
- improvided
- misprovide
- nonprovided
- preprovide
- providable
- providee
- provider
- reprovide
- underprovide
- underprovided

## Related Forms
- provision

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *per-
- Root: providen
- Root: prōvideō

## Etymology
Inherited from Middle English providen, from Latin prōvidēre (“to foresee, act with foresight”). Doublet of purvey.

## AI Etymology
Provide is inherited from Middle English providen, from Latin prōvidēre (“to foresee, act with foresight”). Doublet of purvey. The historical chain includes *per- (Proto-Indo-European), providen (Middle English), prōvideō (Latin). In present-day English it covers to give someone something they need or want, especially support or food, to give a place or thing something useful or necessary, and to earn enough money to support your family. The wider family includes derived forms such as disprovide, foreprovide, improvided, misprovide, nonprovided and related forms such as provision.

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