The story
- Classical Latin · derived fromacciō“call forth”
- Medieval Latin · borrowed fromaccitō“summon”
- English todayaccite
Borrowed from Medieval Latin accitō (“summon”), from Classical Latin acciō (“call forth”), formed from ad + cieō (“summon, call”). The sense “excite, induce” is likely from or reinforced by conflation with excite.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.