Other forms: apprised, apprising
To apprise is to inform somebody of something. Apprise him of the facts, keep me apprised, apprised of the decision.
It takes of and it is formal to the point of stiffness — keep me apprised is official English for tell me what happens. Note appraise, which sounds similar and means to assess the value of, and which is confused with it constantly. The French behind apprise means learned.
1verbappriseTo inform somebody of something.
“Please apprise the manager of any changes to the schedule.”
apprise is an informing.
French appris is the past participle of apprendre, to learn, from Latin apprehendere, to grasp. Apprentice comes from the same learning.
Proto-Indo-European
*gʰed- — to find; to hold; to seize, take
Latin
apprēndere
Old French
aprendre
Middle French
apprendre
French
appris
English, today
apprise
Built from
Borrowed from French appris, apprise, the past participle form of apprendre (“to learn; to teach”), from Middle French apprendre, aprendre (“to learn”), from Old French aprendre, aprandre (“to learn; to educate, teach”), from Latin apprēndere, a variant of apprehendere, adprehendere, the present active infinitives of apprehendō, adprehendō (“to lay hold upon, grab, grasp, seize, take; to apprehend, arrest; to grasp with the mind, comprehend, understand; (Medieval Latin) to learn; to inform; to teach”), from ad- + prehendō (“to lay hold of, grab, grasp, seize, take; (figuratively, rare) of the mind: to apprehend, comprehend, grasp, seize”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European gʰed- (“to find; to hold; to seize, take”)). a doublet of apprehend.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA