English
verify
Verify comes from Old French verifier ‘to verify’.
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400verifier‘to verify’
- Englishearliest quotation 1923verify
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Old Frenchc. 842–1400verifier‘to verify’
- Englishearliest quotation 1923verify
Earliest quotation: 1923, Ernest Bramah pseudonym; Ernest Brammah , (please specify the page): “It is early to judge," he remarked, after stopping…”
A compound of vērus ‘true’ + faciō ‘do, make’
Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros ‘true’
Proto-Italic *wēros ‘true’
Latin vērus ‘true’
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō ‘to make’
Latin faciō ‘do, make’
Every English word from Old French verifier
Today it means
verb To substantiate or prove the truth of something.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old French verifier / verify