Etymograph

English

agreeance

Agreeance comes from Old French agréer ‘to agree’, and goes back to Latin grātum.

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgrātum1
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400gré1
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400agréer2‘to agree’
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400agréance2
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1840agreeance2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Old French agreer
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English agreeance
  3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1840, Henry Geast DUGDALE, Edmund Guest: “And the diversity of our fasting setteth forth the…”.

Lineage

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEgrātumWiktionary, Old French agreer
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400gréWiktionary, Old French agreer
  3. Old Frenchc. 842–1400agréerWiktionary, English agreeance‘to agree’
  4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400agréanceWiktionary, English agreeance
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1840agreeanceWiktionary, English agreeance. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1840, Henry Geast DUGDALE, Edmund Guest: “And the diversity of our fasting setteth forth the…”

Formed from agree + -ance

Old French agreer ‘to accept or receive kindly’

Middle English agreen ‘to please’

English agree

Linked words

through Old French gré

gree

through Old French agréer ‘to agree’

agreement, 1 more

Today it means

noun The sharing of a view or opinion; agreement.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “agreeance”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Old French agreer. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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