edict

Edict comes from Middle English edycte, borrowed from Latin edictum. An earlier English form, edit, arrived through Old French edit, tracing back to the same Latin root.

The word entered English twice from the same Latin source, once through French as edit and later directly from Latin as edycte, which settled into the modern spelling edict.

The facts point to an earlier English form, edit, which shared the same Latin ancestor as edict, though it isn't the same word as the modern 'edit' meaning to revise.