certain

English

/ˈsɜːtn̩/, /ˈsɝtn̩/, /ˈsɝtən/

adj
Definitions
  • Sure, positive, not doubting.
  • (obsolete) Determined; resolved.
  • Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
  • Actually existing; sure to happen; inevitable.
  • Unfailing; infallible.
  • I have often wished , that I knew so certain a remedy in any other disease
  • Fixed or stated; regular; determinate.
  • Known but not specifically named; indeterminate; indefinite; one or some; sometimes used independently as a noun, and meaning certain persons; see also "one".

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English certeyn borrowed from Old French certain derived from Latin certus (certain, resolved, fixed) root from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (separate, seive, divide, touch, strip, sieve, sift, graze, split, I separate, shake, streak, pick out, I move, part).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*krey-

Gloss

separate, seive, divide, touch, strip, sieve, sift, graze, split, I separate, shake, streak, pick out, I move, part

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