English
aggress
Aggress comes from Latin aggredi ‘to attack, assail, approach, go to’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaggredi‘to attack, assail, approach, go to’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaggressumpast participle of aggredi
- Englishearliest quotation 1875aggress
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEaggredi‘to attack, assail, approach, go to’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaggressumpast participle of aggredi
- Englishearliest quotation 1875aggress
Earliest quotation: 1875, anonymous author: “his aggress / Was made with such precaution as…”
A compound of ad ‘to’ + gradi ‘to walk, go’
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd ‘near, at’
Proto-Italic *ad ‘toward, to, on, up to, for’
Latin ad ‘to’
Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ- ‘to walk, go’
Latin gradior ‘to walk, go’
Every English word from Latin aggredi
Today it means
noun Aggression.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin aggredi / aggress