English
aggrace
Aggrace comes from Latin aggratiare.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaggratiare
- Englishearliest quotation 1590aggrace
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaggratiare
- Englishearliest quotation 1590aggrace
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book I, Canto X: “And heare the wisedome of her words diuine. /…”
A compound of ad ‘to’ + gratia ‘grace’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd ‘near, at’
Proto-Italic *ad ‘toward, to, on, up to, for’
Latin ad ‘to’
Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- ‘to welcome, greet, praise’
Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥H-tó-s
Proto-Italic *gʷrātos ‘grateful, thankful’
Latin grātus ‘pleasing’
Latin gratia ‘grace’
Every English word from Latin aggratiare
Today it means
verb To favour; to grace.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin aggratiare / aggrace