supply
English
/səˈplaɪ/, /ˈsʌpli/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To provide (something), to make (something) available for use.
- (transitive) To furnish or equip with.
- (transitive) To fill up, or keep full.
- (transitive) To compensate for, or make up a deficiency of.
- (transitive) To serve instead of; to take the place of.
- (intransitive) To act as a substitute.
- (transitive) To fill temporarily; to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English supplien borrowed from Old French soupleer derived from Latin supplere (supply, fill up, make full, complete).
Origin
Latin
supplere
Gloss
supply, fill up, make full, complete
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- diving English
- electric vehicle English
- electric vehicle supply equipment English
- equipment English
- nonsupplier English
- oversupply English
- resupply English
- self-supply English
- subsupplier English
- suppliable English
- supplial English
- supplier English
- suppliest English
- supplieth English
- supplyant English
- supplyment English
- surface English
- surface-supplied diving English
- undersupply English
- unsuppliable English
- supplere Latin
- Suppletivwesen German
- supplere Norwegian Bokmål
- supplien Middle English
- soupleer Old French
- souploier Old French
- suplay Cebuano
- suplayer Cebuano
- suplay Tagalog
- saplai Tok Pisin
- saplaia Tok Pisin
- saplaim Tok Pisin
- sukhlaai Fiji Hindi