certes

English

Etymology

From Middle English certes, from Old French [Term?], from Latin certus (“certain”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜː.tiːz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝ.tiz/

Adverb

certes (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Certainly, indeed.

   Synonyms: of course, truly, verily

   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 1:

     [F]or certes, ſayes he, / I haue already choſen my officer, and what was he? / Forſooth, a great Arithmeticion, [...]

   • 1845, Herman Melville, Omoo:

     This was very unpleasant, at least to myself; though, certes, it did not prey upon the minds of the others.

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     Here, certes, was no lost soul, but one who had gone joyfully to meet her Lord.

Translations

certainly, indeed — see also certainly,‎ indeed

• Russian: пои́стине (ru) (poístine)

Anagrams

• Cretes, erects, resect, secret, terces

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsɛr.təs]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsɛɾ.tes]

Adjective

certes

1. feminine plural of cert

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁt/

• Audio:

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Adverb

certes

1. (dated) certainly, surely, decidedly, definitely
2. admittedly, granted, fair enough

Further reading

• “certes”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• crêtes, secret, terces

Ladin

Adjective

certes f pl

1. feminine plural of cert

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈker.teːs/, [ˈkɛrt̪eːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃer.tes/, [ˈt͡ʃɛrt̪es]

Verb

certēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of certō

Anagrams

• Cretes

Middle English

Alternative forms

• certis, certus, certs, sertes, sertis, sertus

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French certes.

Adverb

certes

1. certainly; indeed; of course
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parsons Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio cvi, verso, column 1:

     Of the hinder part of her buttockes it is ful horrible for to ſe, for certes in that parte of her body there as they purge her ſtynkynge ordure, that foul partie ſhew they to yͤ people proudly in diſpite of honeſtie, which honeſtie that Jeſu Christ and hys frendes obſerued to ſhewe in her life.

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Old French

Alternative forms

• chertes (northern)

Adverb

certes

1. of course; indeed

Descendants

• French: certes