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Emotion — Definition, Word History, and First Known Use
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
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- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
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RANK 144GRADE Asupports
Emotion first moved crowds before it named inner feeling.
English emotion begins in disturbance, agitation, and social movement; strong feeling emerges later from the same movement-out family.
*meue-
*meue- → movēre → ēmovēre → emouvoir / esmovoir → émotion → emotion
Obsolete disturbance sense and Word HistoryIndependently preserves the early agitation sense.
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
opensupportsprobable
Was emotion first used in the 1570s or exactly 1579?
Etymonline gives the decade; Merriam-Webster gives 1579. These are compatible levels of precision, not proof of one first utterance.
First Known Use: 1579Publishes the exact institutional report.
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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
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EDGE 478supportsestablished
emotion → émotion
Present-Day English → Middle French · borrowing
- SOUND
- English emotion borrows Middle French émotion with English stress and vowel adaptation.
- MEANING
- Movement, disturbance, and agitation develop toward strong feeling and later feeling generally.
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- Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors
Word History: Middle French; First Known Use 1579Documents the borrowing and earliest reported English horizon.
EDGE 479supportsestablished
émotion → emouvoir / esmovoir
Middle French → Old French · derivation
- SOUND
- Middle French émotion is formed in the Old French emouvoir / esmovoir movement family.
- MEANING
- The act or state of stirring and agitation becomes the abstract noun.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors
Word History: from emouvoirDocuments the noun's verbal family.
EDGE 480supportsestablished
emouvoir / esmovoir → ēmovēre
Old French → Latin · borrowing
- SOUND
- Old French emouvoir / esmovoir continues Latin ēmovēre with Romance sound and spelling development.
- MEANING
- Moving out or displacing extends to stirring and agitation.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors
Word History: Old French esmovoir from Latin emovēreDocuments the Romance continuation.
EDGE 481supportsestablished
ēmovēre → movēre
Latin → Latin · prefixed derivation
- SOUND
- Latin ēmovēre combines ex- / ē- “out” with movēre “move”; this linear path follows the verbal base.
- MEANING
- Moving out, removing, or displacing develops an agitation sense.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors
Word History: emovēre from e- plus movēreDocuments the prefixed formation.
EDGE 494supportsestablished
ēmovēre → ex- / ē-
Latin → Latin · compound component
- SOUND
- Latin ēmovēre contains ex- / ē- “out” alongside movēre “move.”
- MEANING
- The outward-direction prefix supplies removal and displacement to the movement verb.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors
Word History: e- plus movēreDirectly identifies the prefix component.
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emotionSOURCE-REPORTED
emotion
Merriam-Webster source-reported English record
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COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES
emotion
Englishfirst compound component
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GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS
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stage 2supports
Roman and Francophone transmission
Documents the transmission route.
Word History: Latin emovēre through Old and Middle French · broadstage 3supports
England
Reports the exact lexicographic horizon and early sense.
First Known Use: 1579; obsolete disturbance sense · regionalstage 2supports
Roman and Francophone transmission
Documents the transmission route.
Word History: Latin emovēre through Old and Middle French · broadstage 3supports
England
Reports the exact lexicographic horizon and early sense.
First Known Use: 1579; obsolete disturbance sense · regional070
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