Reconstruction:Latin/assecuro

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /asseˈkuro/

Verb

*assēcūrō (present infinitive *assēcūrāre, perfect active *assēcūrāvī, supine *assēcūrātum); first conjugation

(Proto-Romance) reassure

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Italian: assicurare
  - → Piedmontese: assicuré
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: assegurare
North Italian:
- Romansch: asgürer
Gallo-Romance:
- Old Franco-Provençal: assieurar
  - Franco-Provençal: assurar, assuriér, assurô, achurâ, achwerye
- Old French: asseurer, asseürer
  - Middle French: asseurer
    - French: assurer
  - → Middle English: [Term?]
    - English: assure
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: assegurar
- Old Occitan: asegurar, assegurar
  - Occitan: assegurar
Ibero-Romance:
- Old Portuguese: assegurar
  - Galician: asegurar
  - Portuguese: assegurar
- Old Spanish: assegurar
  - Spanish: asegurar

References

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

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

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