Where does “resilience” come from?
Resilience derives from Latin resilio, meaning to spring back or rebound, from Proto-Italic wresaljō with the same sense of elastic recoil.
resilience (English): The mental ability to recover quickly from...
Definitions
- The mental ability to recover quickly from...
Ancestry of “resilience”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Latin | resiliō | — |
| 2 | Latin | rĕ- | — |
| 3 | Latin | prōdūcō | — |
| 4 | Latin | prō- | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | *pro- | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | pro- | toward, forward |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | por- | to give birth; forward, through; going, passage |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | per- | before, in front; first; to go through |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | pr̥tós | passed , crossed |