Etymology

resistance

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Today it means: The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist. Full definition →

Middle English resistence ← Old French resistence ← Latin resistentia
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  1. Latin · derived fromresistentia
  2. Old French · derived fromresistence
  3. Middle English · inherited fromresistence
  4. English todayresistance

From earlier resistence, from Middle English resistence, from Old French resistence, from Latin resistentia. Morphologically resist + -ance.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.