The story
- Latin · derived fromirrītō“to irritate”
- French · borrowed fromirritant
- English todayabirritant
From ab- (prefix from Latin ab (“from”)) + irritant, from French irritant, from Latin irrītō (“to irritate”).
Words from the same roots
Frenchirritant all →
irritant
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.