accouter

The story

1. Latin · derived fromcon-“together”
2. Latin · derived fromcōnsuō“to sew together”
3. Latin · derived fromad“to”
4. Vulgar Latin · derived fromacconsūtūrāre“to equip with clothes”
5. Old French · derived fromacoustrer
6. Middle French · borrowed fromaccoutrer
7. English todayaccouter

From Middle French accoutrer, from Old French acoustrer, from Vulgar Latin acconsūtūrāre (“to equip with clothes”), from Latin ad (“to”) + consūtūra (“sewing, clothes”), from Latin cōnsuō (“to sew together”), from Latin con- (“together”) + suō (“to sew”), first attested in the 1590s.

Words from the same roots