vouch

Meanings

Verb

• Often followed by for.

Noun

• An assertion, a declaration; also, a formal attestation or warrant of the correctness or truth of something.

Origin

• The verb is derived from Middle English vouchen, from Anglo-Norman vocher, voucher, woucher, and Old French vocher, voucher, vochier, from Latin vocāre, the present active infinitive of vocō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-.
• Verb sense 6.1 (“to summon (someone) into court to establish a warranty of title to land”) in the form vouch to warrant or vouch to warranty is a and .
• The noun is derived from the verb.