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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

atestiguado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: a-tes-ti-gwa-do

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Attested/əˈtɛstɪd/
adjectiveverbCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El fenómeno lingüístico está bien atestiguado en textos antiguos."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Provided with clear evidence; officially proved, validated, or confirmed to be true or genuine.

    "The ancient manuscript is well-attested by multiple independent historical sources."
  2. 2

    In linguistics, recorded or documented as having been used in actual speech or writing.

    "Several rare Old English words are only attested once in the surviving literature."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'attestari', formed from 'ad-' (to) and 'testari' (to witness, from testis, witness). Entering the English language in the late 16th century, it initially retained its legal and evidentiary sense of bearing witness before expanding into linguistic and historical documentation contexts.

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