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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of asserō (“declare free; claim as a slave; protect; arrogate; maintain, assert”).
Participle
assertus (feminine asserta, neuter assertum); first/second-declension participle
- declared free, set free, liberated, having been liberated
- claimed as a slave, having been claimed as a slave
- protected, preserved, defended, having been protected
- arrogated, claimed by oneself, having been arrogated
- maintained, affirmed, alleged, asserted, declared, having been asserted
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “assertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- assertus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.