Etymograph

English

juration

Juration comes from Latin iuratio ‘swearing, oath, vow’.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiuratio‘swearing, oath, vow’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiurationemaccusative singular of iuratio
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1888juration

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiuratio‘swearing, oath, vow’
  2. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiurationemaccusative singular of iuratio
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1888juration

Earliest quotation: 1888, Janet Ross, Three Generations of English Women: “Lord Lyttelton has detected in our Sydney's 'Letters' "two…”

Today it means

noun The process or act of making an oath.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Latin iuratio / juration