English
adhere
Adhere comes from Latin adhaereō ‘to cleave or stick to’, and goes back to haereō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhaereō‘to stick, stick fast’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadhaereō‘to cleave or stick to’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500*adherenreconstructed
- Englishearliest quotation 1775adhere
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEhaereō‘to stick, stick fast’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadhaereō‘to cleave or stick to’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500*adherenreconstructed
- Englishearliest quotation 1775adhere
Earliest quotation: 1775, Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, &c., [23 February] 1775: “Upon the whole, if, by the British dominions, you…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *gʰays- ‘to adhere, to stick, to be fixed’
through Latin haereō ‘to stick, stick fast’
hesitate, hesitation, hesitant, cohesion, coherent, coherence, hesitancy, coherency, 23 more
through Latin adhaereō ‘to cleave or stick to’
Today it means
verb To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin haereō / adhere