verbs) Middle French: pourveoir French: pourvoir Anglo-Norman: purveir, <span class="searchmatch">purveer</span>, purveu (via “porveu”) → Middle English: purveyen, purveu English: purvey...
<span class="searchmatch">purveer</span> + -our. purveour oblique singular, m (oblique plural purveours, nominative singular purveours, nominative plural purveour) purveyor Middle French:...
porveoir Middle French: pourveoir French: pourvoir Anglo-Norman: purveir, <span class="searchmatch">purveer</span>, purveu (via “porveu”) → Middle English: purveyen, purveu English: purvey...
14th-15th centuries) From Middle English purveyen, from Anglo-Norman <span class="searchmatch">purveer</span>, purveir et al., Old French porveeir, porveoir, from Latin prōvidēre (“to...
arranges or prepares something”) (modern French pourvoyeur), from porveoir, <span class="searchmatch">purveer</span>, purveir (“to equip, furnish, provide, purvey; to foresee; to look at;...