dress

Etymology

The PIE word is *dwís. The verb comes from Middle English dressen or dresse (“to arrange, put in order”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French dresser, drecier (modern French dresser), from Late Latin *dīrēctiāre (“to guide, direct”), from Classical Latin dīrēctus, from which English direct also comes; it is further akin to Latin regō. The noun derives from the verb. Compare typologically with adorn (from Latin ōrnō, from ōrdō, which also gives ōrdinō and English order, ornament), and with Russian наряжа́ть (narjažátʹ), наря́д (narjád) (akin to ряд (rjad), поря́док (porjádok)).