assign

Meaning

Verb

1. To designate or set apart (something) for some purpose.
2. To appoint or select (someone) for some office.
3. To allot or give (something) as a task.
4. To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
5. To attribute or sort (something) into categories.
6. To transfer (property, a legal right, etc.) from one person to another.
7. To give (a value) to a variable.

Noun

1. An assignee.
2. (obsolete) A thing relating or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
3. (obsolete) An assignment or appointment.
4. (obsolete) A design or purpose.

Hyphenated as

as‧sign

Pronounced as (IPA)

/əˈsaɪn/

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Latin ad
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-der.
Proto-Italic *seknom
Latin signum
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin signō
Latin assignōlbor.
Old French assignerbor.
Middle English assignen
English assign
From Middle English assignen, from Old French assigner, asigner, from Latin assignō, from ad- + signō (“mark, sign”).