The story
- Latin · derived fromadōrnāre
- Middle English · inherited fromadornen
- English todayadorn
From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre; from ad- + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.
Words from the same roots
Latinadōrnāre all →
anorn
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.