asegurar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to secure (to make fast; to close or confine effectually)
  2. (transitive) to assure (to give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of)
  3. to claim, to maintain
  4. (transitive) to ensure, to guarantee (to make a pledge to someone)
  5. (reflexive) to make sure, to ensure (to take care that something happens)
  6. (transitive) to insure (to provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs)
  7. to belay

Frequency

B2
Hyphenated as
a‧se‧gu‧rar
Pronounced as (IPA)
/aseɡuˈɾaɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Old Spanish assegurar, from Vulgar Latin *assēcūrare, from Latin sēcūrus (“safe”). Compare English assure.

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