Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
3. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
4. Proto-Italic *dis-
5. Latin dis-
6. Proto-Indo-European *streyg-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-né-
8. Proto-Indo-European *-ti
9. Proto-Indo-European *strinégti
10. Proto-Italic *stringō
11. Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ-
12. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
13. Proto-Indo-European *stréngʰeti
14. Proto-Italic *strengō
15. Latin stringō
16. Latin distringōder.
17. Old French destrecierbor.
18. Middle English destresse
19. English stress
20. From a shortening of Middle English destresse, borrowed from Old French destrecier, from Latin distringō (“to stretch out”). This form probably coalesced with Middle English stresse, from Old French estrece (“narrowness”), from Vulgar Latin *strictia, from Latin strictus (“narrow”). Displaced native Old English swēġ (“accent, stress”), though strictly in the grammatical sense.
21. In the sense of "mental strain" or “disruption”, used occasionally in the 1920s and 1930s by psychologists, including Walter Cannon (1934); in “biological threat”, used by endocrinologist Hans Selye, by metaphor with stress in physics (force on an object) in the 1930s, and popularized by same in the 1950s. See: Old French '
destrecier', Latin '
distringō'.
Verbs referencing "stress"
Icelandic
stressa, Danish
stresse, Vietnamese
xì-trét.