certain
Old French
adj
Definitions
- certain; sure
Etymology
Inherited from Latin *certānus, certus (certain, resolved, fixed).
Origin
Latin
certus
Gloss
certain, resolved, fixed
Concept
Semantic Field
Cognition
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- certain English
- *certificare Latin
- *certānitās Latin
- *certānus Latin
- certe Latin
- certificatum Latin
- certifico, certificāre, certificō Latin
- certitudo Latin
- certo Latin
- certus Latin
- certo Italian
- certain French
- incertain French
- acertar Spanish, Castilian
- *krey- Proto-Indo-European
- certein Middle English
- certeinly Middle English
- certes Middle English
- certeyn Middle English
- acertener Old French
- cert Old French
- certa Esperanto
- cert Catalan, Valencian
- cert Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- cert Old Irish
- cèrtain Norman
- cèrtainement Norman
- certo Old Portuguese
- ciertu Asturian
- ciert Friulian
- certan Old Occitan
- cierto Old Spanish
- çerto Venetian
- ciart Dalmatian
- čertjoin Dalmatian
- cert Ladin
- sierto Istriot