Translation
certainly; at least
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Examples
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It is certainly true.
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This much at least I know.
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He certainly will not come.
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I at any rate believe you.
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If not everyone, at least many will come.
is the adverb of , and it pulls in two directions depending on what it is attached to. At full strength it asserts: "certainly, undoubtedly". Restricting a claim, it concedes: "at least, at any rate", narrowing the ground rather than strengthening it. , is the second use in its purest form.
Latin has a second adverb from the same adjective, , which survives mainly in the phrase , "I know for a fact". is the default; reach for only in that phrase. The underlying verb is cerno, "to sift, to separate out", so what is is what has been sorted and settled, and English "certain", "discern" and "decree" all sit in the same family.
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 9: certe, quin, longe and 7 more words.