proviso

See also: Proviso

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin proviso (“it being provided”), ablative singular neuter of provisus, past participle of providere (“to provide”); see provide.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˈvaɪzoʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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Noun

proviso (plural provisos or provisoes)

1. A conditional provision to an agreement.

Related terms

• provide
• provision
• provisional
• proviso quod

Translations

conditional provision to an agreement

• Bulgarian: условие (bg) n (uslovie), уговорка (bg) f (ugovorka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 但書 / 但书 (zh) (dànshū)

• Dutch: voorbehoud (nl)
• Finnish: varaus (fi), varauma (fi)
• French: provision (fr) f (à un accord), réserve (fr) f
• Galician: condición (gl) f
• German: Bedingung (de) f, Maßgabe (de) f, Vorbehalt (de) m, Vorbehaltsklausel f, Kautel (de) f
• Japanese: 但書 (ただしがき, tadashigaki)
• Norwegian: forbehold (no) n
• Polish: klauzula (pl) f
• Russian: усло́вие (ru) n (uslóvije), огово́рка (ru) f (ogovórka) (в догово́ре)
• Scottish Gaelic: cùmhnant m, coingheall m
• Serbo-Croatian: uvjet (sh) m, uslov (sh) m
• Spanish: salvedad
• Swedish: förbehåll (sv), reservation (sv)

Further reading

• “proviso”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “proviso”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Latin

Participle

prōvīsō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of prōvīsus

References

• “proviso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “proviso”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• proviso in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• proviso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.