English → Latin
“assertion” in Latin
affirmātiōaffirmation, declaration, assertion; confirmationassevērātiōan earnest pursuit or behavior; seriousness; a vehement assertion, affirmation or asseveration; vehemence, rigor; a wordsententiaa way of thinking, view, opinion, judgement or sentence; a purpose, intention, will (one's thinking in respect to the fuopīniōopinion, conjecture, imagination, fancy, belief, expectation; reputation, esteem; report, rumordēcernōto decide, decide upon, settle, determine (especially something disputed or doubtful); to pronounce a decision concernindogmaA philosophic tenet, doctrine, dogma; A decree, orderrevocōto recall (troops, etc.), to call back; to withdraw; to revive
The English word assertion itself goes back to Latin asserō, through assertiō.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
assertion
affirmatio: asseveratio (both as an action): sententia (opinion): opinio: decretum: dogma (opinion of a school in philosophy). To retract an assertion, sententiam mutare: revocare. Vid: Assertio is the maintaining in a court of justice that a person is a free man or a slave.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for assertion?
- The usual Latin words for “assertion” are affirmātiō, assevērātiō, sententia; also opīniō, dēcernō, dogma. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.