Etymology

disagree

dis·a·gree
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Today it means: To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief. Full definition →

Middle English disagre ← Anglo-Norman disagreer ← Old French desagreer
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromdesagreer
  2. Anglo-Norman · derived fromdisagreer
  3. Middle English · inherited fromdisagre“to refuse to assent to”
  4. English todaydisagree

From Middle English disagre (“to refuse to assent to”), from Anglo-Norman disagreer, disagrer, desagreer (“to refuse assent”), from Old French desagreer, desagrëer (“to be disagreeable; to be unpleasant”) (modern French désagréer (“to displease”)); the English word is analysable as dis- + agree.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.