affirm
/əˈfɝm/ · verb
Meaning
- To agree, verify or concur; to answer positively.
- To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true.
- To support or encourage.
- To make firm; to confirm, or ratify; especially (law) to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
- To state under a solemn promise to tell the truth which is considered legally equivalent to an oath, especially of those who have religious or other moral objections to swearing oaths; also solemnly affirm.
- Yes; true; correct.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English affermen, from Old French afermer, affermer, from Latin affirmare, adfirmare (“to present as fixed, aver, affirm”), from ad (“to”) + firmare (“to make firm”), from firmus (“firm”). By surface analysis, af- + firm.
- affirmare(Latin)→
- afermer(fro)→
- affermen(Middle English)→
- *dʰer-(ine-pro)→
- affirm (English)
- Relations: root, inh, der, der
Related words
Descendant words
- afia(Cornish) (der)
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