asseverate
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin assevērāre, from assevērō (“I assert”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]asseverate (third-person singular simple present asseverates, present participle asseverating, simple past and past participle asseverated)
- (transitive) To assert earnestly, seriously, and confidently
- 1642, Sir Richard Gurney, 1st Baronet, The Lord Maior of Londons Letter to the King at Yorke, June 22[1], London:
- Whereas Your Maiesty hath received true information of great sums of Money endeavoured to be borrowed of Your City of London, by directions proceeding from both Houses of Parliament […] (I Your Maiesties faithfull Subiect) doe conceive, and dare asseverate, that it is intended upon no other pretence then for the Honour and defence of Your Maiesty,
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 7, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book 10, page 261:
- I will myself asseverate and bind it by an Oath, that the Muff thou bearest in thy Hand belonged unto Madam Sophia;
- 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter IX, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 195–196:
- “And I presume you can also asseverate to his worship, that no man is better qualified than I am to bear testimony in this case, seeing that I was by you, and near you, constantly during the whole occurrence?”
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 1, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
- The more I laughed at such theories, the more these stubborn friends asseverated them; adding that even without the heritage of legend the recent reports were too clear, consistent, detailed, and sanely prosaic in manner of telling, to be completely ignored.
- 1971, Iris Murdoch, An Accidental Man[2], New York: Viking, page 31:
- A time would come, Mr. Secombe-Hughes mysteriously asseverated, when all would be well and she would get her money.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]declare earnestly
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]asseverate
- inflection of asseverare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]asseverate f pl
Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- assevērātē: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /as.se.u̯eːˈraː.teː/, [äs̠ːeu̯eːˈräːt̪eː]
- assevērātē: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /as.se.veˈra.te/, [äsːeveˈräːt̪e]
- assevērāte: (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /as.se.u̯eːˈraː.te/, [äs̠ːeu̯eːˈräːt̪ɛ]
- assevērāte: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /as.se.veˈra.te/, [äsːeveˈräːt̪e]
Adverb
[edit]assevērātē (not comparable)
Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]assevērāte
References
[edit]- asseverate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English terms with quotations
- English reporting verbs
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian verb forms
- Italian past participle forms
- Latin 5-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adverbs
- Latin uncomparable adverbs
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin verb forms