English
agreeance
Agreeance comes from Old French agréer ‘to agree’, and goes back to Latin grātum.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgrātum
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400gré
- Old French, derivedc. 842–1400agréer‘to agree’
- Old French, derivedc. 842–1400agréance
- Englishearliest quotation 1840agreeance
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgrātum
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400gré
- Old French, derivedc. 842–1400agréer‘to agree’
- Old French, derivedc. 842–1400agréance
- Englishearliest quotation 1840agreeance
Earliest quotation: 1840, Henry Geast DUGDALE, Edmund Guest: “And the diversity of our fasting setteth forth the…”
Formed from agree + -ance
Linked words
through Old French gré
through Old French agréer ‘to agree’
Today it means
noun The sharing of a view or opinion; agreement.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin grātum / agreeance