Assertion
/əˈsɝːʃən/noun
A confident statement made as a fact or a forceful act of declaring something.
Did you know?Assertion comes from Latin ad + serere, meaning “to join or bind,” so an assertion is literally a statement you fasten onto reality.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*ser-
“to link, join, or put in a row”
Latin
Latin
serere
“to join, bind, or string together”
Latin
Latin
asserere
“to join to oneself; claim, vindicate”
Late Latin
Latin
assertio
“a claim, defense, or affirmation”
14th Century
English
assertion
“a formal claim or declaration”
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