assertus

== Latin == === Etymology === Perfect passive participle of asserō (“declare free; claim as a slave; protect; arrogate; maintain, assert”). === Participle === assertus (feminine asserta, neuter assertum); first/second-declension participle declared free, set free, liberated, having been liberated claimed as a slave, having been claimed as a slave protected, preserved, defended, having been protected arrogated, claimed by oneself, having been arrogated maintained, affirmed, alleged, asserted, declared, having been asserted ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. === References === “assertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “assertus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.