Where does “assurance” come from?
Assurance comes from Middle English assuraunce, from Old French asseurance, formed with the Old French suffix -ance from a root ultimately traced through Latin ad- and Proto-Indo-European ád and kʷey-.
assurance (English): The act of assuring; a declaration tending to...
Definitions
- The act of assuring; a declaration tending to...
Ancestry of “assurance”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle English | assuraunce | — |
| 2 | Old French | asseürance | Alternative form of asseurance |
| 3 | Old French | asseürer | Alternative form of asseurer |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | *assēcūrāre | — |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |