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Etymology and origin of the Latin word auso

Confidence
Established
Formation
Derivation
First attested
643, Edictum Rothari
Ultimate origin
Latin audeō
Etymology tree
inherited borrowed derived
Latin auso
French oser

Forms

ausō (present infinitive ausāre, perfect active ausāvī, supine ausātum); first conjugation[1]

Etymology

It is a frequentative of audeō (“to dare”).[1]

Earliest recorded meaning

The MLW quotes it from the Edict of Rothari (643), of a shepherd who does not dare to swear; the Visigothic formulae have it of someone who did not dare to take an oath.[2][3]

Semantic evolution

It stayed a rare word of early medieval texts with the sense “to dare”.[2][1] Wiktionary knows it only from one manuscript of the Ars Asperi, a grammar attributed to Irish scholars of the seventh century.[1]

Timeline

  • 643 – The Edict of Rothari uses it of a shepherd who does not dare to swear.[2][3]

Meanings

Verb

  1. (Medieval Latin) To dare.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch bis zum ausgehenden 13. Jahrhundert (1967–), Munich: C. H. Beck; Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
  3. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de

Descendants

Cite this entry

“Auso.” Etymologically, 23 Oct. 2026, etymologically.com/la/auso. Accessed 23 Oct. 2026.

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