Other forms: provisos
A proviso is a condition attached to an agreement. With the proviso that, one small proviso, subject to a proviso.
It nearly always appears as with the proviso that, and it marks the point where the agreement stops being simple. The Latin means it being provided, from the opening words of such clauses in old deeds.
1nounprovisoA condition attached to an agreement.
“They agreed to lend us the car, with the proviso that we fill it with petrol.”
proviso is a condition.
Latin proviso means it being provided, from providere, to provide, from the opening of such clauses in deeds.
Latin
proviso — it being provided
English, today
proviso
Built from
Latin proviso (“it being provided”), ablative singular neuter of provisus, past participle of providere (“to provide”); see provide.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA