DictionaryRoot: ad-
Latin

ad-

to, toward; addition; sometimes emphasis

Forms

  • ad-
  • ac- — Used before c in Latin.
  • af- — Used before f in Latin.
  • ag- — Used before g in Latin.
  • al- — Used before l in Latin.
  • ap- — Used before p in Latin.
  • ar- — Used before r in Latin.
  • as- — Used before s in Latin.
  • at- — Used before t in Latin.

Origin

Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *ad, ‘to; near.’

Note

Later Latin-based spellings sometimes restored consonants that had disappeared in French.

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noun

assertion

uh-SUR-shun/əˈsɜːrʃn/

A firm declaration that a claim or right is valid.

The witness delivers a confident assertion in court.

A witness confidently presents testimony from a courtroom witness stand, addressing an attentive questioning attorney with a firm, composed speaking gesture.
Etymology

The underlying image is “joining oneself” to a view, thereby claiming or maintaining it. The noun names such a declaration: a statement presented as true, though not necessarily supported by evidence.

In context

Slade L.52:07
she's making the assertion that Meline had been taken which is already conclusionary then calling on a divine witness by the inclusion of the word God
The McCann's: Embedded Confessions - Statement Analyst Peter Hyatt.

More examples

  • The report repeats several untested assertions.
  • Her refusal became an assertion of independence.
  • A confident assertion is not proof.

Forms

assertion · assertions

assert verb — state confidently

Similar words

claim
Claim is general; assertion emphasizes stating something confidently as true.
allegation
An allegation often concerns unproven wrongdoing; an assertion can concern any subject.