resultare

Resultare is a verb with historical and cross-linguistic relevance, appearing primarily in Latin and, to a lesser extent, in discussions of Italian Romance languages. In Latin, resultare is found in late Latin texts with senses such as to rebound, to spring back, or to come forth as a result. In these contexts it can describe physical motion or the emergence of an effect from a preceding cause. The form is relatively infrequent in classical Latin and is typically encountered in scholarly editions or commentaries rather than in broad narrative prose.

In modern Italian, resultare is not part of standard usage. The common infinitive meaning “to turn out” or “to appear as a result” is conveyed by risultare. Resultare appears almost exclusively in historical or philological discussions about Latin or in dialectal or nonstandard writings. When Italian writers intend the ordinary sense of a consequence or outcome, they normally use risultare rather than resultare.

Because of its rarity in contemporary Italian, resultare is mainly of interest to linguists, lexicographers, and scholars studying the Latin origin of Romance languages, as well as discussions of orthographic variation or Latin loanwords in medieval Italian texts. For readers seeking the everyday sense of “to result,” risultare is the appropriate form in modern Italian, while resultare is best understood as a historical or Latin-origin term.