vouch
English
/ˈvaʊtʃ/
verb
Definitions
- To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.
- To warrant; to maintain by affirmations
- To back; to support; to confirm.
- To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
- (obsolete) To call; to summon.
- To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
- To call as a witness.
- To assert; to aver; to declare.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English vouchen derived from Old French voucher derived from Latin vocāre (call).
Origin
Latin
vocāre
Gloss
call
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Vouchergate English
- antivoucher English
- disvouch English
- e-voucher English
- misvouch English
- safe English
- vouchee English
- voucher English
- voucherless English
- vouchest English
- voucheth English
- vouchment English
- vouchsafe English
- vouchsafement English
- vouchsafer English
- vouchsafest English
- vouchsafeth English
- vocāre Latin
- vogare Italian
- voucher Italian
- ваучер Russian
- equívoco Spanish, Castilian
- *wagōną Proto-Germanic
- vouchen Middle English
- vochier Old French
- voucher Old French
- vogâ Friulian
- vogar Venetian
- boca Hausa