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/

Noun

proviso (plural provisos or provisoes)

1. A conditional provision to an agreement.

Related terms

• provide
• provision
• provisional

Translations

conditional provision to an agreement

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 但書／但书 (zh) (dànshū), 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, Vorbehalt (de) m, Vorbehaltsklausel f, Kautel (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 但書 (ただしがき, tadashigaki)
• Norwegian: forbehold (no) n
• 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.

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) prōvīsō

1. dative masculine singular of prōvīsus
2. dative neuter singular of prōvīsus
3. ablative masculine singular of prōvīsus
4. ablative 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.