Etymology

result

re·sult
R1E1S1U1L1T1

Today it means: To proceed, spring up or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought or endeavor. Full definition →

Middle English resulten ← Medieval Latin resultare
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Medieval Latin · derived fromresultare
  2. Middle English · inherited fromresulten
  3. English todayresult

Recorded since 1432 as Middle English resulten, from Medieval Latin resultare, in Classical Latin "to spring forward, rebound", the frequentative of the past participle of resilio (“to rebound”), from re- (“back”) + salio (“to jump, leap”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.