different between confirm vs aut

English

Alternative forms

• confirme (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English confirmen, confermen, from Old French confermer, from Latin confirm?re (“to make firm, strenghten, establish”), from com- (“together”) + firmare (“to make firm”), from firmus (“firm”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?f??m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?f?m/
• Rhymes: -??(?)m
• Hyphenation: con?firm

Verb

confirm (third-person singular simple present confirms, present participle confirming, simple past and past participle confirmed)

1. To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
2. (transitive, Christianity) To administer the sacrament of confirmation on (someone).
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 35:

     Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII, was baptized and confirmed at the age of three days.

3. To assure the accuracy of previous statements.

Synonyms

• (strengthen): See also Thesaurus:strengthen

Antonyms

• infirm
• disconfirm
• deny
• dispute
• contradict
• question

Related terms

• confirmability
• confirmation

Translations

See also

• verify
• corroborate
• establish
• prove

Further reading

• confirm in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• confirm in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• confirm at OneLook Dictionary Search

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin altus.

Adjective

aut m (feminine singular auta, masculine plural auc, feminine plural autes)

1. high

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h?ewti (“on the other hand”), from *h?ew. Cognate with autem, Ancient Greek ?? (aû), ???? (aûte), ????? (autós), ????? (autár).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /au?t/, [äu?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /au?t/, [?u?t?]

Conjunction

aut

1. or (exclusive or)
2. otherwise, or else (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false)

3. Introduces a correction to the previous words or an afterthought remark.

Usage notes

• In the meaning (1) typically placed before each coordinated element (aut...aut...aut), equivalent to "either...or".
• Unlike vel, this word implies an exclusive "or"; i.e., one option or the other, but not both.

Descendants

• Aragonese: u
• Asturian: o
• Catalan: o
• Italian: o, od
• Ligurian: ò
• Occitan: o
• Old French: ou
  • French: ou
• Old Portuguese: ou
  • Galician: ou
  • Portuguese: ou
• Romanian: au
• Romansch: u
• Spanish: o, u
• ? Esperanto: a?
• ? Ido: od, o

References

• aut in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aut in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aut in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *áutei, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ew-. Cognates include Lithuanian a?ti, Proto-Slavic *uti (“to put on”) (> *j?zuti, *obuti), Hittite [script needed] (unu-, “to adorn, decorate, lay (the table)”), Latin *u? (“to put on”) (> exu?, indu?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [àwt]
• Audio (LV):

Verb

aut (tr., 1st conj., pres. aunu, aun, aun / auju, auj, auj, past ?vu)

1. put on footwear (shoes, boots, socks, etc.)

2. nos?dos uz akmens un grib?ju aut k?jas, bet kurpes bija ?oti sabristas — I sat down on a rock and wanted to put shoes on (lit. to put (my) feet (into shoes)), but the shoes were very wet

3. (figuratively, with k?jas) to prepare for a journey (lit. to put on footwear)

Usage notes

Note that aut can take two complements, the footwear or the subject's feet. Either can be the direct object, in which case the other will be a locative complement (i.e., either "to put shoes on one's feet" or "to put one's feet into shoes").

Conjugation

Synonyms

• t?rpt
• vilkt

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:

other derived terms:

• auties

Related terms

• apavs
• aukla

References

• Derksen, Rick (2015) , “auti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 73

Middle Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?d/

Verb

aut

1. second-person singular imperfect indicative of mynet

Occitan

Alternative forms

• naut

Etymology

From Latin altus.

Adjective

aut m (feminine singular auta, masculine plural auts, feminine plural autas)

1. (Provençal) high

   Antonym: bas

Polish

Etymology

From English out.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /awt/

Noun

aut m inan

1. (sports) touch (the part of a field beyond the touchlines or goal lines)
2. (sports) the situation when the ball goes into touch

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) autowy

Noun

aut

1. genitive plural of auto

Further reading

• aut in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From English out.

Noun

aut n (plural auturi)

1. (soccer) ball out of play

Declension

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) ault
• (Sutsilvan) òlt
• (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) ot

Etymology

From Latin altus.

Adjective

aut m (feminine singular auta, masculine plural auts, feminine plural autas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) high

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English out.

Noun

aut m (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (sports) area outside the playground borders