garantía

/ɡaɾanˈtia/ · B1 · noun · f

guarantee

📜✅ Same root as English guarantee and warranty: a promise that something holds

Garantía comes from Old French garantie, from a Germanic word meaning to vouch for. That same root gave English both guarantee and warranty. Spanish adds the stressed -ía ending, so say ga-ran-TI-a.

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