Etymograph

English

accouter

Accouter comes from Vulgar Latin acconsūtūrāre ‘to equip with clothes’.

  1. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEacconsūtūrāre‘to equip with clothes’
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400acoustrer
  3. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600accoutrer
  4. Englishearliest quotation c. 1596–1598accouter

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CEacconsūtūrāre‘to equip with clothes’
  2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400acoustrer
  3. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600accoutrer
  4. Englishearliest quotation c. 1596–1598accouter

Earliest quotation: c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice: “[…] Ile hold thee any wager / When we…”

A compound of ad ‘to’ + consūtūra ‘sewing, clothes’

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd ‘near, at’

Proto-Italic *ad ‘toward, to, on, up to, for’

Latin ad ‘to’

first attested From Middle French accoutrer, from Old French acoustrer, from Vulgar Latin acconsūtūrāre (“to equip with clothes”), from Latin ad (“to”) + consūtūra (“sewing, clothes”), from Latin cōnsuō (“to sew together”), from Latin con- (“together”) + suō (“to sew”), first attested in the 1590s (as stated in the etymology)

The story

From Middle French accoutrer, from Old French acoustrer, from Vulgar Latin acconsūtūrāre (‘to equip with clothes’), from Latin ad (‘to’) + consūtūra (‘sewing, clothes’), from Latin cōnsuō (‘to sew together’), from Latin con- (‘together’) + suō (‘to sew’), first attested in the 1590s.

Every English word from Vulgar Latin acconsūtūrāre

Today it means

verb To furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Vulgar Latin acconsūtūrāre / accouter

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