certes

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

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

certes (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Certainly, indeed.

   Synonyms: of course, truly, verily

   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parsons Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: Printed by [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, 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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   • Herman Melville, Omoo

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

• Cretes, erects, resect, secret, terces

certes

1. feminine plural of cert

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁt/

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certes

1. indeed, admittedly, fair enough, certainly, surely, absolutely, decidedly, definitively

• “certes” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• crêtes, secret, terces

certes f pl

1. feminine plural of cert

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈker.teːs/, [ˈkɛr.teːs]

certēs

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of certō

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

Borrowed from Old French certes.

certes

1. certainly; indeed; of course

• chertes (northern)

certes

1. of course; indeed

• French: certes