prevenire

Meaning

  1. (rare, transitive) to precede
  2. (transitive) to anticipate
  3. (transitive) to prevent, to forestall
  4. (transitive) to inure psychologically, to prepare against negative influences
  5. (rare, transitive) to forewarn

Frequency

C2
Hyphenated as
pre‧ve‧nì‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pre.veˈni.re/
Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin praeveniō (“anticipate”).

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