English
aggrieve
Aggrieve comes from Middle English agreven.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500agreven
- Englishearliest quotation 1848aggrieve
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500agreven
- Englishearliest quotation 1848aggrieve
Earliest quotation: 1848, Edgar Allan Poe, Wiley & Putnam,: “Right is positive; wrong is negative—is merely the negation…”
A compound of agrever + grever ‘to burden, injure’
Proto-Indo-European *gʷreh₂- ‘heavy’
Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us ‘heavy’
Proto-Italic *gʷraus ‘heavy’
Latin gravis ‘heavy’
Latin gravō ‘to make heavier’
Old French grever ‘to burden, injure’
Every English word from Middle English agreven
Today it means
verb To cause someone to feel pain or sorrow to; to afflict
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English agreven / aggrieve