Where does “agitate” come from?
Agitate comes from Latin agitatus, past participle of agitare, which derives from agere meaning "to drive or do," ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₂eǵ-.
agitate (English): To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up; To...
Definitions
- To disturb or excite; to perturb or stir up; To...
Ancestry of “agitate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | agitatus | driven, impelled; brandished, wielded; agitated,... |
| 2 | Latin | agitō | to act, behave, do, or make persistently or unremittingly |
| 3 | Latin | -ito | Forms frequentative verbs from existing verbs or... |
| 4 | Latin | -tō | Forms here |
| 5 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |