The story
- Latin · derived fromcōnsentīre“to agree; to assent, consent”
- Old French · derived fromconsentir
- English todayconsent
Recorded in Middle English since circa 1225, borrowed from Old French consentir, from Latin cōnsentīre (“to agree; to assent, consent”), itself from com- (“with”) + sentiō (“to feel”) (whence con-).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.