English
purview
Purview comes from Middle English purveu ‘proviso’.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500purveu‘proviso’
- Englishearliest quotation 1788purview
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500purveu‘proviso’
- Englishearliest quotation 1788purview
Earliest quotation: 1788, James Madison, The Right of the Convention to Frame such a Constitution: “Will it be said that the fundamental principles of…”
The story
Influenced by view and its etymological antecedents.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *weyd- ‘to see’
story, guy, idea, guide, advice, witness, wise, historic, wisdom, wit, idol, wizard, historian, advise, witty, guise, steroid, tabloid, visitation, revue, envious, druid, envision, improvise, twit, hypothyroidism, avis, idyll, witter, hyperthyroidism, parathyroid, trapezoid, hyoid, colloid, weet, sigmoid, thyroxine, thyroiditis, visite, 91 more
through Proto-Indo-European *widéh₁yeti
through Proto-Italic *widēō ‘to see’
revision, invisibility, provident, vada, evidential, 14 more
through Latin videō ‘to see’
video, evidence, visit, review, vision, interview, invisible, visa, evident, providence, visibility, vista, revise, prudential, jurisprudence, vide, voyeur, invidious, 14 more
through Latin prōvideō ‘to provide, see to’
provide, provision, prudent, prudence, proviso, purveyor, 9 more
Today it means
noun The enacting part of a statute.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English purveu / purview