verb
assēcūrāre
*assēcūrāre
Meaning
- Proto Romancereconstructionassure
Origins
From ad- (“to”) + sēcūrus (“safe, secure”) + -āre (verb-forming suffix). Eventually surfaces in twelfth-century Medieval Latin as assēcūrāre, by that point simply a borrowing from Romance.
Northern Gallo-Romance
- Frenchassurerfrom Old French asseurer
- Romanianasigurafrom Old French asseurer
- Englishassurefrom Old French asseurer
- Franco-Provençalassurar
- Danishassurerefrom Old French asseurer
Ibero-Romance
- Portugueseassegurarfrom Old Galician-Portuguese assegurar
- Spanishasegurarfrom Old Spanish assegurar
- Galicianasegurarfrom Old Galician-Portuguese assegurar
Insular Romance
- Sardinianassegurare
Italo-Dalmatian
- Italianassicurare
- Istriotasicurà
- Piedmonteseassicuréfrom Italian assicurare
- Sicilianassicurari
Southern Gallo-Romance
- Occitanassegurarfrom Old Occitan asegurar
Rhaeto-Romance
- Romanshasgürer
In English words that came into English from assēcūrāre
- assecurationassecuratio