adseverate
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adseverate:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
earnestly, emphatically;
- Entry →adsevero, adseverare, adseveravi, adseveratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
act earnestly; assert strongly/emphatically, declare; profess; be serious;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- A
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...atque ludo res digna est, cum plerique grammaticorum adseverant "necessitudinem" et "necessitatem" mutare longe differreque, ideo quod necessitas..." - P
Liber VI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...varia traduntur. maxime vulgatum quingentorum spatium: sunt qui adseverent mille quadringentos sexaginta unum interici, prioresque alites Sesoside primum..." - P
Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...rutilae Caledoniam habitantium comae, magni artus Germanicam originem adseverant; Silurum colorati vultus, torti plerumque crines et posita contra..."
