Agent

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late Middle English (in the sense ‘someone or something that produces an effect’): from Latin agent- ‘doing’, from agere .


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From Latin agēns, present active participle of agere(“to drive, lead, conduct, manage, perform, do”).


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agent (n.)

late 15c., "one who acts," from Latin agentem (nominative agens) "effective, powerful," present participle of agere "to set in motion, drive forward; to do, perform; keep in movement" (from PIE root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move"). Meaning "any natural force or substance which produces a phenomenon" is from 1550s. Meaning "deputy, representative" is from 1590s. Sense of "spy, secret agent" is attested by 1916.




agent (adj.)

1610s, from agent (n.).