The story
- Latin · derived fromgravare“to weigh down”
- Old French · derived fromagrever
- Middle English · inherited fromagreven
- English todayaggrieve
From Middle English agreven, from Old French agrever; a (Latin ad) + grever (“to burden, injure”), from Latin gravare (“to weigh down”), from gravis (“heavy”). See grieve, and compare with aggravate.
Words from the same roots
Latingravare all →
gravamen
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.