Where does “life assurance” come from?
life assurance (English) comes from English assurance, from Middle English assuraunce, from Old French asseürance, from Old French asseürer, from Vulgar Latin *assēcūrāre, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în — in.
life assurance (English): An insurance policy that pays out on death (or on certain other conditions)
Definitions
- An insurance policy that pays out on death (or on certain other conditions)
Ancestry of “life assurance”, step by step
life assurance traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English assurance
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | assurance | The act of assuring; a declaration tending to... |
| 2 | Middle English | assuraunce | — |
| 3 | Old French | asseürance | Alternative form of asseurance |
| 4 | Old French | asseürer | Alternative form of asseurer |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | *assēcūrāre | — |
| 6 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 7 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 8 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 9 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 10 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via English life
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | life | The state of organisms preceding their death,... |
| 2 | Middle English | lyf | life |
| 3 | Old English | līf | life, existence; life-time |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | līb | body; life |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | lībą | body; life |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | lībaną | to remain, to be left |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | leyp- | to stick; fat or sticky substance |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | lēy- | to leave, let; to want, desire; to let; leave... |