The story
- Latin · derived fromascendō“to go up, climb up to”
- Old French · derived fromascendre
- Middle English · inherited fromascenden
- English todayascend
From Middle English ascenden, borrowed from Old French ascendre, from Latin ascendō (“to go up, climb up to”), from ad (“to”) + scandō (“to climb”); see scan. Unrelated to accede other than common ad prefix.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.