Reconstruction:Latin/assecurare

This Latin entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Latin

Etymology

From ad- (“to”) +‎ sēcūrus (“safe, secure”) +‎ -āre (verb-forming suffix).

Eventually surfaces in twelfth-century Medieval Latin as assēcūrāre,[1] by that point simply a borrowing from Romance.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /assekuˈrare/

Verb

*assēcūrāre (Proto-Romance)

assure

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: assicurare
  - → Piedmontese: assicuré
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: assegurare
North Italian:
- Romansch: asgürer
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: assurar
- Old French: asseurer, asseürer
  - Middle French: asseurer
    - French: assurer
      - → Danish: assurere
      - → Romanian: asigura (partial calque)
  - → Middle English: [Term?]
    - English: assure
- Old Occitan: asegurar, assegurar
  - Occitan: assegurar
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Galician-Portuguese: assegurar
  - Galician: asegurar
  - Portuguese: assegurar
- Old Spanish: assegurar
  - Spanish: asegurar

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*assēcūrare”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 509

Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “assecurare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 64

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[1] Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “assecurare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 64