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, by that point simply a borrowing from Romance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /assekuˈrare/

Verb

*assēcūrāre (Proto-Romance)

1. 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