Dictionary formiuro, iurare, iuravi, iuratum

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Translation

to swear, take an oath

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Examples

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The soldier swore an oath to his general.

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He refused to swear by the gods.

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They all used to swear allegiance to the laws.

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Having sworn, he told everyone the truth.

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To swear falsely is a crime.

Iuro, iurare, iuravi, iuratum is first conjugation and perfectly regular. You swear per with the accusative, per deos, and you swear loyalty to something with in and the accusative: iurare in leges, and Horace iurare in verba magistri, "swear by the master words", his phrase for taking somebody else opinion on trust.

The grammatical oddity is iuratus. It is a perfect participle of an active verb but it is used actively, "having sworn", not "having been sworn" - one of a small group that behave this way alongside cenatus and potus. The noun family is ius, iuris, "law", and iusiurandum, "oath", which declines both halves at once: iurisiurandi, iureiurando. Perjury is periurium, swearing straight through the truth.

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This word is taught in chapter 5, lesson 10: iuro, unda, membrum and 7 more words.