dresser

Signification

1. to raise, to erect, to build
2. to raise, to lift, to elevate
3. to prepare; to draw up
4. to pitch (a tent)
5. to set, to lay out
6. to tame (lion etc), to break in (horse), to train (an animal)
7. to stand

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dʁɛ.se/

Étymologie

Inherited from Old French drecer, drecier, from Vulgar Latin *dīrectiāre (through a contracted form *drectio), from Latin dīrectus (“straight”), whence the adjective direct. Compare Catalan dreçar, Italian drizzare, Sicilian addizzari, Spanish aderezar, Norman dréchi, Friulian dreçâ.