confirm
confirm
意味(日本語)
確かめる ◇con(=wholly 強め) = 十分に堅固にする
語源
- firm- : L.firmus = firm(堅い)
意味(英語)
- (verb-transitive) To support or establish the certainty or validity of; verify.
- (verb-transitive) To make firmer; strengthen: Working on the campaign confirmed her intention to go into politics.
- (verb-transitive) To make valid or binding by a formal or legal act; ratify.
- (verb-transitive) To administer the religious rite of confirmation to.
例文
- They were all the lords of fairly small districts (as you can confirm from the map of Gondor in the book), none much bigger than another, except for the large fief of Belfalas and the remote and thinly populated Anfalas, ‘the Langstrand far away’; and they all seemed to be tenants in chief of the Steward himself.

語源が同じ単語を一緒に覚えよう
affirm
affirm
肯定する、確言する ◇af=ad(=to) = 確固たるものにする
語源
- firm- : L.firmus = firm(堅い)
affirmation
affirmation
断言
語源
- firm- : L.firmus = firm(堅い)
affirmative
affirmative
肯定的 ◇cf. negative
語源
- firm- : L.firmus = firm(堅い)
confirmation
confirmation
確認、確定
語源
- firm- : L.firmus = firm(堅い)
confirmative
confirmative
確認する、(形容詞)
語源
- firm- : L.firmus = firm(堅い)
disaffirm
disaffirm
(前言を)取り消す
語源
- firm- : L.firmus = firm(堅い)
firm
firm
堅固な、商社 ◇スペイン語=firmar(=サインする)
語源
- firm- : L.firmus = firm(堅い)
firmament
firmament
大空、天空、(堅くて移動しないと昔考えられていた)
語源
- firm- : L.firmus = firm(堅い)
firmness
firmness
堅固
語源
- firm- : L.firmus = firm(堅い)
firmly
firmly
きっぱりと
語源
- firm- : L.firmus = firm(堅い)
infirm
infirm
病弱な、老衰した ◇in(=not) = 強固ではない
語源
- firm- : L.firmus = firm(堅い)
infirmarian
infirmarian
看護人
語源
- firm- : L.firmus = firm(堅い)
infirmity
infirmity
虚弱、病弱 ◇in(=not)
語源
- firm- : L.firmus = firm(堅い)
infirmary
infirmary
病院 ◇ary(=場所を表わす)
語源
- firm- : L.firmus = firm(堅い)