Don’t just prep, prepare!
Prepare is an interesting word. It comes from the Latin word pre (before) and the word paro (make ready). So it literally means to make ready beforehand, which is basically the definition of prepare. The pre part seems redundant though. You can’t get ready after the fact, so there’s no postpare. And there’s no word pare that simply means to get ready during. There’s also a Latin word preparo, which means the same thing as paro, so even the Romans were just as confused as us.
Next time somebody “preps” for the SATs or GREs, they’re actually missing the most important part–pare.
I’ll also leave you with some other English words that are derived from paro.
pare - when you peel a vegetable, you’re preparing it.
apparatus- an instrument used to prepare something.
Just be careful not to confuse paro words with the root word par, meaning equal, or the Greek prefix para, meaning beside or side-by-side (parody, parable, paradox, etc.)
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