Etymology

agreeable

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Today it means: Able to agree; possible to be agreed. Full definition →

Middle English agreable ← Old French agreable
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromagreable
  2. Middle English · inherited fromagreable
  3. English todayagreeable

From Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable. Equivalent to agree + -able.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishagreable all →

agreeability

Old Frenchagreable all →

agreeability

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.