The story
- Latin · derived fromaedificare“build”
- Old French · derived fromedifier“to build, to edify”
- English todayedify
From Old French edifier (“to build, to edify”), from Latin aedificare (“build”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
edify
Today it means: To build, construct. Full definition →
Old French edifier ← Latin aedificare