affy
/əˈfaɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
2
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Chiefly followed by that or to: to formally affirm or promise (something).
Obsolete; Transitive verb
verb
Chiefly of a man: to formally promise to marry (someone, chiefly a woman); to be engaged to; also, to marry (someone); to espouse.
Obsolete; Transitive verb
verb
Chiefly followed by to, unto, or with: often of a parent or guardian: to formally promise that (someone) be married to another person; to affiance, to betroth.
Obsolete; Transitive verb
verb
Followed by in, to, or unto: to bind or pledge (someone or something) to another person or thing.
Obsolete; Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "He, though affide unto a former love, / To whom his faith he firmely ment to hold, / […] Her graunted love, but with affection cold […]"
- "Marcus Andronicus, so I do affie / In thy vprightnesse and Integrity […]"
- "If you have won a monthly prize, they will send you an affy and have you send it back. Then your prize comes from a courier."
- "The contest ended in mid November, I got the affy Christmas eve, and I picked up the car February 4th or 5th."
Etymology
From Middle English affien (“to have faith, trust”), from Anglo-Norman afier, affier, affyer, Middle French afier, affier, affyer, and Old French afier (“to agree to marry; to believe, trust; to assure, promise; to confide in; to pledge, swear”), from Late Latin affidare (“to betroth; to pledge faith”), from Latin af- (a variant of ad- (intensifying prefix)) + Vulgar Latin *fīdāre (“to trust”) (from Latin fidēre, the present active infinitive of fīdō (“to put confidence in, trust; to rely upon”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeydʰ- (“to convince; to trust”)).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *bʰeydʰ-, affien, afier, affidare, af-, *fīdāre
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /əˈfaɪ/
- British English: /əˈfaɪ/