Asser, ásseris, pen. corr. vel Assis, huius assis, m. gen. Plaut.A shingle: a clouen boorde: a planke: a punchion or ioyste of r. or xii. foote long, also the brest bone ouer the heart, called also Scutum cordis.
Assero, ásseris pen. corr. asserui. assertum assérere. Cicer.To claime: to assirme or approoue: to manumise or make frse: to deliuer.Asserere manu aliquem. Ter. To set one at liberly: to make fres.Asserere se.Ouid.To make himselfe free: to set himlelfe at libertie. Asserere in seruitutem.Liu.To bring into bondage.Asserere sibi maiestatem diuinam, pro Assumere & arrogare. Tranquil. To take vpon him a viuine maiestie.Asserere sibi cognomen abquod. Plin. To take or giue to himselfe.Fœlicis sibi cognomen asseruit Lucius. Sil. Plin. iunior. He gaue to himselfe this surname, Happy.Asserere se ab iniuria obliuionis. Plin. To do some thing, to make his name iminortall.Asserere se mortalitate.Plin. iun. Idem. Asserere se stdrjs.Plin. iun.To leaue all other thinges, and giue himselfe wholy to studie.Asserere gaudia vtraque manu. Mart. Asserere aliquem cœlo.Ouid.To tanonise or make a sainct.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
asser, ĕris, m. [from 2. assero, quod admoveantur haereantque parietibus, Perot.; so agger from aggero]. I.A beam, pole, stake, post, Vitr. 7, 3: Co. Sunt asseres? St. Sunt pol, Plaut. Aul. 2, 6, 8: asseres pedum XII., cuspidibus praefixi in terră defigebantur, Caes. B. C. 2, 2; Liv. 44, 5; 30, 10; 38, 5; Tac. H. 4, 30; Vulg. Eccli. 29, 29 al.—II.A pole on which a litter was borne, Suet. Calig. 58; Juv. 3, 245; 7, 132.—III.A lath, Vitr. 4, 2.
