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Reform comes from Middle English reformen, from Old French reformer, from Latin refōrmō ‘to reshape’, from re- + fōrmō ‘to form’.

1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CErefōrmō¹as reformo‘to reshape, transform’
2. Old Frenchc. 842–1400reformer¹
3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500reformen¹‘to restore, reform’
4. Englishearliest quotation 1709reform¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English reform
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1709, Jonathan Swift: “Thus human nature seems to lie under the disadvantage,…”.