The story
- Old French · derived fromavoir a contrecuer
- French · borrowed fromà contrecœur
- English todayà contrecœur
Borrowed from French à contrecœur, à contre-cœur, from Old French avoir a contrecuer, avoir contrecœur (“to dislike”), from à (“for, with”) + contre-cœur (“aversion, dislike”) (contre (“against”) + cœur (“heart”)); compare Old French estre contre coer a (“to be adverse to”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.