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prepare

/pɹiˈpeə/pree-PUH
/pɹiˈpɛɹ/pree-PER

Meaningto make ready beforehand

Common meaning: to make ready beforehand

‘before’ + ‘to make ready’ → prepare

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√PAR‘produce, afford, prepare, share’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 198, p. 737 · scan
  2. Latinparō, parāvī‘to make ready’
  3. Old Frenchpreparersource
  4. Englishprepare‘to make ready beforehand’ · today

pre- also in: prefixprecedeprecisepredictpreface

par also in: repairseparateapparatus

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Latin parō ‘to make ready’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Lewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), entry parō, p. 1304 · dictionary scan

Roots

Related words

apparatusrepairseparate

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