agréer

• IPA^(key): /a.ɡʁe.e/

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Inherited from Middle French agreer (“to accept, receive, admit, welcome”), from Old French agreer (“to consent, approve, be grateful”), from a- + gré (“consent, permission, will”). Compare Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish agradar.

agréer

1. (formal) to accept

   Veuillez agréer l’expression de mes sentiments respectueux.

   Semi-literally 'please accept my expression of respect'

   (equivalent to yours sincerely in English)

• désagréer
• agréable
• agrément
• agrémenter

Inherited from Middle French agreer (“to equip”), from Anglo-Norman agreier (“to equip, equip a ship with tackle”), from a- + *greier, from Old Norse greida (“to put in order, prepare, arrange”), from Proto-Germanic *garaidijaną (“to prepare, put in order”), from Proto-Indo-European *reydʰ- (“to put in order, make comfortable”). Cognate with Old English ġerǣdan (“to arrange, assist”), Middle High German gereiten (“to arrange, prepare”), Middle Dutch gereide (“equipment, harness”). More at English ready.

agréer

1. (archaic) to prepare; rig; trim

• agrès
• dégréer
• gréer
• gréement
• gréeur

• “agréer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• égarer, gérera