assurer
French
verb
Definitions
- to assure, to ensure, to make sure
- to insure, to give insurance to.
- (climbing) to belay
Etymology
Inherited from Old French asseurer borrowed from Latin *assecūrāre, sēcūrus (secure, carefree, careless, without care, safe, unconcerned, unworried, worryless) affix from French sûr (sure).
Origin
French
sûr
Gloss
sure
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- assure English
- *assecūrāre Latin
- *assecūrō, *assecuro, *assecūrāre Latin
- ad- Latin
- securitas Latin
- sēcūritās Latin
- sēcūrus Latin
- sicuro Italian
- assurable French
- assurance French
- assurantiel French
- assureuse French
- rassurer French
- réassurance French
- sûr French
- sûrement French
- sûreté French
- asseurance Old French
- asseurer Old French
- rasseurer Old French
- rasseürer Old French
- seür Old French
- segur Catalan, Valencian
- asigura Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- asigurare Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- sigur Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- segur Welsh
- Assurance Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- asseurer Middle French
- sceur Middle French
- *sikur gmw-pro
- segurar Old Portuguese
- seguro Old Portuguese
- segur Occitan
- sigûr Friulian
- asire Haitian, Haitian Creole
- assiré Louisiana Creole French