Etymology

revet

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Today it means: To face (an embankment, etc.) with masonry, wood, or other material. Full definition →

French revêtir ← Middle French vestir ← Old French vestir
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Frenchre-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*wes-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*wéstis
  6. Proto-Italic*westis
  7. Latinvestis
  8. Latinvestiō
  9. Old Frenchvestir
  10. Middle Frenchvestir
  11. Frenchvêtir
  12. Frenchrevêtir
  13. English todayrevet

Borrowed from French revêtir (“to reclothe”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.