provisionally

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Etymology

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English provisional

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English provisionally

From provisional + -ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

provisionally (comparative more provisionally, superlative most provisionally)

1. In a provisional way; temporarily.

   Antonym: unprovisionally

   • 2001 April 16, J. Michael Davis, “Manganese and Rhenium”, in Patty's Toxicology, →DOI:

     Before the discovery and confirmation of the existence of rhenium predicted by Mendeleev's periodic law, rhenium was provisionally termed dvi-manganese because of its expected resemblance to manganese.

Translations

in a provisional way

• Catalan: provisionalment (ca), provisòriament (ca)
• Esperanto: provizore
• French: provisoirement (fr)
• German: vorläufig (de), provisorisch (de)
• Italian: provvisoriamente (it)
• Polish: prowizorycznie (pl), tymczasowo (pl), przejściowo (pl)
• Russian: предварительно (ru) (predvaritelʹno)
• Spanish: provisionalmente (es), provisoriamente (es)

See also

• improvisationally