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resilire

Resilire is a Latin verb meaning to leap back, rebound, or spring back. It derives from the prefix re- meaning back or again, combined with salire, to jump, and is used in classical Latin to describe physical rebounding as well as figurative recovery from a setback.

In usage, resilire can convey both a literal movement—such as a body or object springing away from

The participle resilēns, meaning “leaping back” or “rebounding,” serves as a linguistic root for later developments.

In linguistic study, resilire is cited as the source for English verbs such as resile (to recoil)

See also: resile, resilience.

a
contact
point—and
a
metaphorical
rebound
after
difficulty.
The
form
appears
in
literary
and
rhetorical
contexts,
where
it
helps
express
resilience
in
a
broad
sense.
Like
other
Latin
movement
verbs,
it
has
a
range
of
tenses
and
voices,
but
it
is
not
one
of
the
most
common
everyday
verbs
in
surviving
classical
texts.
In
modern
English,
the
related
noun
resilience
and
the
adjective
resilient
trace
their
origins
to
this
Latin
idea
of
springing
back,
typically
via
French
résilience.
The
concept
of
resilience
in
contemporary
discourse—an
ability
to
recover
from
disturbance
or
adversity—carries
forward
this
core
sense
of
rebound
from
its
Latin
ancestry.
and
as
part
of
the
historical
vocabulary
that
underpins
the
modern
terms
resilience
and
resilient.
While
the
exact
Latin
forms
are
primarily
of
interest
to
scholars
of
Latin
grammar
and
philology,
the
word’s
influence
extends
into
how
many
languages
express
the
idea
of
bouncing
back.