establish

Meaning

1. To make stable or firm; to confirm.
2. To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
3. To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
4. To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.

Hyphenated as

es‧tab‧lish

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English establissen, from Old French establiss-, stem of some of the conjugated forms of establir, (Modern French établir), from Latin stabiliō, stabilīre, from stabilis (“firm, steady, stable”).