resumere

Resumere is not a standard English term. In linguistic and historical contexts, it can be encountered as the Latin infinitive resumere, meaning to resume or to take up again. This form is formed from re- “again” and sumere “to take,” and it appears in some Latin texts and scholarly discussions of Latin verb conjugation. Outside of such academic usage, resumere is not commonly used as a modern verb in Latin studies or in English.

In modern Romance languages, related concepts are expressed with different verbs and spellings. Italian uses riassumere to mean “to summarize” or “to recap,” Spanish uses resumir, Portuguese uses resumir, and French uses résumer for “to summarize.” The English noun and verb pair related to resumes and summaries have distinct histories: résumé (with accents) in French means “summary,” and resume (without accents) in English refers to a short document outlining a person’s education and experience or, as a verb, to begin again. These modern forms are not direct cognates of the Latin resumere, though they share a semantic lineage around taking up a concise account or continuing after a pause.

In contemporary usage, resumere may appear only as a historical or linguistic reference, an OCR artifact, or a creative branding choice. It is not established as a standard word in English, and it is typically replaced by resume/resumé, or by the appropriate verb in the relevant Romance language.