Etymology

résumé

ré·su·mé
French résumé ← Latin resūmere
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromresūmere“to take back”
  2. French · borrowed fromrésumé
  3. English todayrésumé

Borrowed from French résumé, past participle of résumer (“to summarize”), from Latin resūmere (“to take back”); compare resume.

Words from the same roots

Frenchrésumé all →

Latinresūmere all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.