English emotion borrows Middle French émotion with English stress and vowel adaptation.
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emotion
feeling; originally also disturbance, agitation, or social movement
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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedMiddle French · Middle French, 16th century · agitation movementémotion
movement, agitation, or disturbance
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Movement, disturbance, and agitation develop toward strong feeling and later feeling generally.
Merriam-Webster reports English use in 1579; Etymonline places the earliest horizon in the 1570s.
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Emotion — Definition, Word History, and First Known UseWord History: Middle French; First Known Use 1579
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents the borrowing and earliest reported English horizon.
Emotion — Origin and historyHeadword history: French émotion; strong-feeling sense by the 1650s
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents the semantic movement from agitation toward feeling.
American Heritage Dictionary: emotionWord History: French émotion
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Independently documents the borrowing chain.
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