Where does “accord” come from?
accord (French) comes from French accorder, from Middle French accorder, from Old French acorder, from Latin concordare, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
accord (French): chord; agreement; permission, consent
Definitions
- chord; agreement; permission, consent
Ancestry of “accord”, step by step
accord traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via French accorder
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | accorder | to grant; to link to, to be related to; to make... |
| 2 | Middle French | accorder | to agree |
| 3 | Old French | acorder | to concede; to allow; to agree; to come to an... |
| 4 | Latin | concordare | — |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |