Etymograph

English

aggregate

Aggregate comes from Middle English aggregat(e) ‘a sum, unit, complex, aggregate’, from New Latin aggregō ‘to flock together’, and ultimately from grex.

  1. New Latinc. 1500–1900grex‘a group of smaller animals: a flock, a pack, a swarm (of insects), etc’
  2. New Latin, derivedc. 1500–1900gregō‘to flock or group’
  3. New Latin, derivedc. 1500–1900aggregō‘to flock together’
  4. New Latin, derivedc. 1500–1900nominative
  5. New Latin, derivedc. 1500–1900aggregātum‘an aggregate’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500aggregat(e)‘a sum, unit, complex, aggregate’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1823aggregate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. New Latinc. 1500–1900grex‘a group of smaller animals: a flock, a pack, a swarm (of insects), etc’
  2. New Latin, derivedc. 1500–1900gregō‘to flock or group’
  3. New Latin, derivedc. 1500–1900aggregō‘to flock together’
  4. New Latin, derivedc. 1500–1900nominative
  5. New Latin, derivedc. 1500–1900aggregātum‘an aggregate’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500aggregat(e)‘a sum, unit, complex, aggregate’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 1823aggregate

Earliest quotation: 1823, James Fenimore Cooper: “Yes sair," returned the Frenchman, whose prominent eyes were…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₂ger- ‘to gather’

gaon, agora, gaff, agon, panegyric, 9 more

through New Latin grex ‘a group of smaller animals: a flock, a pack, a…’

egregious, gregarious, 8 more

through New Latin gregō ‘to flock or group’

congregation, congregate, segregate, 2 more

through New Latin nominative

ancestor, dictate, delegate

Another origin of aggregate

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500aggregat(e)‘aggregated’
  2. Englishtodayaggregate

Another origin of aggregate

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*gʷregsuncertain
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgrex‘a group of smaller animals: a flock, a pack, a swarm (of insects), etc’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEgregō‘collect, assemble’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaggregō‘to add to a flock, bring together in a flock’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaggregātus‘added to a flock, brought together in a flock, clustered, having been added to a flock’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500aggregat
  7. Middle English, derivedc. 1150–1500aggregaten‘to aggregate’
  8. Englishtodayaggregate

Today it means

noun A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; something consisting of elements but considered as a whole.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / New Latin grex / aggregate

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