PROVIDE Copy link • PROVIDEparare, comparare (for money or otherwise): praeparare, providere (to take care that a thing be ready): to provide the necessaries of life, res ad vitam degendam necessarias praeparare: to provide provisions for the winter, in hiemem providere frumentum: to provide a very great store of corn, frumenti vim maximam comparare: that is easily provided, parabilis.