surete
Middle English
/siu̯r(ə)ˈteː/
noun
Definitions
- certainty; a feeling of confidence
- A specific certainty; a truth
- protection, secureness, security
- A pledge or agreement assuring something, or a method of verification for such:
Etymology
Borrowed from seurté derived from Latin sēcūritās suffix from Middle English sure.
Origin
Middle English
sure
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- cosurety English
- countersurety English
- nonsurety English
- sure English
- surety English
- suretyship English
- unsurety English
- sēcūritās Latin
- sēcūrus Latin
- sure Middle English
- surely Middle English
- surement Middle English
- suren Middle English
- surenes Middle English
- swerte Middle English
- seurté Old French
- seür Old French
- securité Middle French
- sur Middle French
- seurté xno