verb/a.swaʁ/
to sit (someone) down, to seat, make sit; to sit down, sit up, take a seat; to assert
“Assieds les enfants sur des chaises !” — Sit the children down on chairs!
Inherited from Middle French asseoir, from Old French asseoir, from Vulgar Latin *assedēre, re-formed from Latin assidēre, on the basis of sedeō.