PREVENT Copy link • PREVENTTo go before, praevenire: praeire: intervenire (to get the start of). To anticipate, praecipere: anticipare: (ante) occupare. [Vid: ANTICIPATE.] To hinder, impedire aliquid: impedimento esse alicui rei: impedimentum afferre alicui rei faciendae (general terms): obstare or officere alicui rei alicujus: prohibere [SYN. in HINDER]: non sinere aliquid, or generally non sinere aliquid fieri (οὐκ ἐᾷν τι, not to allow anything, not to let it pass or happen; e.g., the passage over, transitum or transire lion sinere): to prevent anybody from doing anything, prohibere aliquem aliquid facere; aliquem impedire ab aliqua re; impedire ne quis aliquid faciat; non sinere aliquem aliquid facere; aliquem arcere or prohibere aliqua re: to prevent approach to the shore, qra e nave egredi prohibere: nothing prevents our doing it, nihil impedit, quominus hoc faciamus: which you both could and should have prevented, quod et potuisti prohibere ne fieret, et debuisti.