Appease
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Middle English: from Old French apaisier, from a- (from Latin ad ‘to, at’) + pais ‘peace’.
wiktionary
From Middle English apesen, from Old French apeser(“to pacify, bring to peace”).
etymonline
appease (v.)
c. 1300 "to reconcile," from Anglo-French apeser, Old French apaisier "to pacify, make peace, appease, be reconciled, placate" (12c.), from the phrase a paisier "bring to peace," from a "to" (see ad-) + pais, from Latin pacem (nominative pax) "peace" (see peace). Meaning "pacify (one who is angry)" is from late 14c.; for political sense, see appeasement. Related: Appeased; appeasing.
