supervise

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To watch over and direct a person, group, or task to make sure it is done properly.

   Without someone to supervise them, the group will lack direction.

Simplified etymology

Supervise entered English in the late Middle English period with the sense “to oversee.” It ultimately contains the Latin root videre, “to see,” expressing the idea of watching over something.

Borrowed from Medieval Latin supervisus, from supervidere, from Latin super + videre. Doublet of survey.

Topics

External links

• Google Images
• Cambridge Dictionary
• Wiktionary