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Where does “résumé” come from?

résumé (English) comes from French résumé, from French résumer, from Latin resūmō, from Latin rĕ-, from Latin prōdūcō, from Latin prō-, from Proto-Italic *pro-, from Proto-Indo-European pro- — passed , crossed.

résumé (English): Alternative spelling of resume

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of resume

Ancestry of “résumé”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchrésumépast participle of résumer; summary, résumé;...
2Frenchrésumerto summarize, to sum up
3Latinresūmō—
4Latinrĕ-—
5Latinprōdūcō—
6Latinprō-—
7Proto-Italic*pro-—
8Proto-Indo-Europeanpro-toward, forward
9Proto-Indo-Europeanpor-to give birth; forward, through; going, passage
10Proto-Indo-Europeanper-before, in front; first; to go through
11Proto-Indo-Europeanpr̥tóspassed , crossed
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