assertio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin asserō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin assertiō

From asserō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [asˈsɛr.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [asˈsɛr.t͡si.o]

Noun

assertiō f (genitive assertiōnis); third declension

1. declaration of status (a formal declaration of one's civil state, whether as a slave or a freeman)
2. (Late Latin) assertion (a positive declaration or averment)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	assertiō	assertiōnēs
genitive	assertiōnis	assertiōnum
dative	assertiōnī	assertiōnibus
accusative	assertiōnem	assertiōnēs
ablative	assertiōne	assertiōnibus
vocative	assertiō	assertiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: asserció
• French: assertion
• Galician: aserción
• Italian: asserzione
• Portuguese: asserção
• Spanish: aserción
• → English: assertion

References

• “assertio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “assertio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.