Excite
Middle English (in the sense ‘incite someone to do something’): from Old French exciter or Latin excitare, frequentative of exciere ‘call out or forth’. excite (sense 1) dates from the mid 19th century.
wiktionary
From Middle English exciten, from Old French exciter, from Latin excitare(“call out, call forth, arouse, wake up, stimulate”), frequentative of exciere(“call out, arouse excite”), from ex(“out”) + ciere(“call, summon”). See cite and compare to accite, concite, incite.
etymonline
excite (v.)
mid-14c., exciten, "to move, stir up, instigate," from Old French esciter (12c.) or directly from Latin excitare "rouse, call out, summon forth, produce," frequentative of exciere "call forth, instigate," from ex "out" (see ex-) + ciere "set in motion, call" (from PIE root *keie- "to set in motion"). Of feelings, "to stir up, rouse," from late 14c. Of bodily organs or tissues, from 1831. Sense of "rouse the emotions of, emotionally agitate" is attested from 1821.
