English → Latin
“assure” in Latin
affirmōto present (something) as fixed, firm, or true; affirm, assert, maintain; to strengthen, confirm, corroborate; to make ccōnfirmōto make firm, establish, re-establish, strengthen, fortify, mature, confirm; to encourage, animate, embolden; persuade; assevērōto do any thing with earnestness, pursue earnestly; to be serious; to assert, declare positively, affirm; to make known,dēspōnsōto betroth
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
assure
maintain the certainty of any thing: affirmare: confirmare (to assert the certainty of a thing emphatically): asseverare (to maintain a thing earnestly: asserere is bad in this sense) in the Golden Age with de, or the accusative and infinitive: pro certo affirmare: sancte affirmare: with an oath, jurejurando affirmare or confirmare. He assured them with an oath that he would give, etc., jurejurando confirmavit-daturum, etc. Be assured, persuadeas tibi; persuasum tibi sit; crede mihi, or, more commonly, mihi crede (parenthetically): persuadeas tibi velim; velim tibi ita persuadeas: sic volo tibi persuadere. You may be assured that I shall do every thing, illud cave dubites, quin ego omnia faciam, etc. To feel assured of anybody’s fidelity, ejus fides mihi cognita est.
Produce in anybody the feeling of certainty about anything: fiduciam facere alicui; fiduciam afferre alicui. To feel assured of or about anything, magnam fiduciam habere alicujus rei.
Betroth: despondere aliquem alicui; desponsare (later. Suet.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for assure?
- The usual Latin words for “assure” are affirmō, cōnfirmō, assevērō; also dēspōnsō. 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.