sure
Middle English
/sɛu̯r/
adj
Definitions
- safe, protected not dangerous or harmful
- fortified, well-defended, protected; especially religiously
- sure, certain, confirmed
- sure-minded certain of one's intent
- reliable, of good quality
- sound, sturdy, hardy
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French seür derived from Latin sēcūrus (secure, carefree, careless, without care, safe, unconcerned, unworried, worryless).
Origin
Latin
sēcūrus
Gloss
secure, carefree, careless, without care, safe, unconcerned, unworried, worryless
Concept
Semantic Field
Emotions and values
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cocksure English
- footsure English
- oversure English
- snowsure English
- sure English
- sure-fire English
- sure-handed English
- surefooted English
- surely English
- surement English
- sureness English
- sureseater English
- surety English
- unsure English
- unsured English
- *assecūrāre Latin
- sabūcus Latin
- securitas Latin
- securus Latin
- sēcūritās Latin
- sēcūrus Latin
- sicuro Italian
- sur French
- sureau French
- sore Middle English
- soure Middle English
- suere Middle English
- sur, sure Middle English
- surely Middle English
- surement Middle English
- suren Middle English
- surenes Middle English
- surete Middle English
- seür Old French
- seürement Old French
- sur Old French
- segur Catalan, Valencian
- sigur Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- syur Cebuano
- segur Welsh
- siwr Welsh
- sceur Middle French
- sur Middle French
- *sikur gmw-pro
- segurar Old Portuguese
- seguro Old Portuguese
- segur Occitan
- sigûr Friulian
- seurté xno
- seur Walloon