Revest comes from Old French revestir, from Latin revestire ('to clothe again'), from re- ('again') + vestire ('to clothe'), from vestis ('garment'). The historical chain includes Latin revestire, Latin vestis, and Proto-Indo-European *wes-. Older glosses in the chain include "to clothe again", "again", "to clothe", and "garment", which help explain the semantic range of the modern word. Morphologically, revest is best read as compound and borrowing, yielding an English verb shaped by both form history and later usage. In current English it functions as a verb, with the sense "to restore or vest again in a former possessor; to reclothe". related forms include vest, invest, divest, and vestment. The result is an English verb whose etymology preserves the older forms while supporting the word's specialized modern meaning.