annex (v.)

late 14c., “connect with,” from Old French annexer “to join, attach” (13c.), from Medieval Latin annexare, frequentative of Latin annecetere “to bind to,” from ad

“to” (see ad-) + nectere “to tie,

bind” (from PIE root *ned – “to bind, tie”).

Usually meaning “to join in a subordinate capacity,” but that notion is not in the etymology. Of nations or territories, c.

1400. Related: Annexed; annexing.