The story
- Old French · derived fromaviler“to make vile or cheap, disprize, disesteem”
- Middle English · inherited fromrevilen
- English todayrevile
From Middle English revilen, from re + Old French aviler (“to make vile or cheap, disprize, disesteem”), from a- (“to”) + vil (“vile, cheap”); see vile.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.